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Yingjie Peng Awarded the 2024 XPLORER PRIZE

Mon, 2024-08-26  On August 26, 2024, the winners of the 2024 XPLORER PRIZE were announced, with Professor Yingjie Peng from the Department of Astronomy and the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics (KIAA) at Peking University among the 49 recipients.

The first-ever “Continuous Gravitational Waves School” in China held at KIAA

Thu, 2024-08-08  A week-long international school on the topic of continuous gravitational waves was recently held between 2024 July 7 - 11 at KIAA. This was the first-ever continuous gravitational waves meeting held in China.

KIAA hosted the EPIC 2024 Conference on the Early Phase and Initial Conditions of Galactic Massive Star Formation

Thu, 2024-07-25  The Early Phase and Initial Conditions of Galactic Massive Star Formation (EPIC 2024) was successfully held at KIAA during July 1-2, 2024. EPIC 2024 was a focused conference designed to promote scientific collaborations among the Chinese and world community of

"Motion Picture" Method Reveals the Shape of the Milky Way's Dark Matter Halo

Mon, 2024-07-01  Recently, the international scientific journal Nature Astronomy published online the paper "A slightly oblate dark matter halo revealed by a retrograde precessing Galactic disk warp", which is jointly led by the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences , Peki

Opening Ceremony for the PKU 60-centimetre Telescope and Astronomy Teaching Practice Base

Mon, 2024-04-29  On 26 April 2024, the opening ceremony of the "Peking University 60-centimetre Telescope and Astronomy Teaching Practice Base" was held at the Xinglong Observatory of the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

PKU Astronomers Reveal Over 1.5 Million Reliable Quasar Candidates from Gaia DR3

Mon, 2024-04-29  KIAA announces an advancement in cosmic exploration with the release of the CatNorth quasar candidate catalog, as recently published in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. The international collaborative study, led by Dr. Yuming Fu and Prof. Xue-Bing

A wobbling magnetised star challenges the origin of repeating fast radio bursts

Mon, 2024-04-08  An international research team led by Gregory Desvignes from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, used the Effelsberg and Jodrell Bank radio telescopes to observe the precessing magnetar XTE J1810-197 — a highly magnetised and ultra-

Dynamic View of Mass Assembly in Massive Protocluster Formation and Evolution

Tue, 2024-03-12  Combining ALMA observations and single-dish observations including Atacama Pathfinder Experiment telescope (APEX) in Chile and James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) in Hawaii, Fengwei Xu, a fourth-year Ph.D. student under the supervision of Prof. Ke Wang at the

Signing Ceremony of PKU - CWNU EAST Collaboration Agreement and Workshop on the Science Objectives of EAST held at KIA

Fri, 2024-03-01  On 29 February 2024, the Signing Ceremony of the Peking University (PKU)- China West Normal University (CWNU) Expandable Aperture Segmented Telescope (EAST) Project Collaboration Agreement and the Workshop on the Scientific Objectives of EAST were held at KIAA

PKU Astronomy Holds the "Galaxies and Quasars" NSFC Innovative Research Group Project Summary Meeting

Fri, 2024-01-19  On January 18, 2024, the summary meeting of the "Galaxies and Quasars" NSFC Innovative Research Group Project was held at KIAA. More than 40 leaders, experts, project members and faculty from NSFC, PKU, and other universities and institutes attended the meetin