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Best ALMA Image Ever Reveals a Planet Nursery around a Young Star (Chinese Version)
Academia Sinica Newsletter (2014/11/07) Recently, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) obtained its highest-ever resolution image, revealing the surroundings of HL Tau, a young star of one million years old soon to become a Sun. The latest image of HL Tau from the telescope demonstrates both
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Gigantic Digital Imaging Camera Installed on Subaru Telescope to Unravel Mysteries of Dark Energy (Chinese Version)
Academia Sinica Newsletter (2012/09/26) An international collaboration of astronomers led by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) and including a group of scientists from the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA) installed a gigantic dig
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Six Academia Sinica Scholars Elected TWAS Members, Awarded Prizes (Chinese Version)
Academia Sinica Newsletter (2012/09/21) The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS) announced the election of five Academia Sinica Academicians among its 2012 list of new members on September 18. In addition, one research fellow from Academia Sinica was elected a TWAS Young Affiliate. The announceme
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University Names Asteroid "Miaoli" to Thank County for Its Support (Chinese Version)
CNA – Focus Taiwan (2012/04/23) National Central University held a ceremony Monday (April 23) to celebrate naming an asteroid it discovered "Miaoli," the northern Taiwanese county where the school resumed operations 50 years ago.
Speaking at the ceremony, Gin-rong LIU, Acting President of the university, s
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New Planet Named after 'Father of Chinese Physics' (Chinese Version)
CNA - Focus Taiwan (2012/01/17) Taipei, Jan. 17 (CNA) A planet discovered by two astronomers at Lulin Observatory in 2008 has been named after Ta-you WU (1907-2000), a Chinese-born atomic and nuclear theoretical physicist known as the "father of contemporary Chinese physics.”
A ceremony was held on January 17 at National
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Taiwanese-American Astronomer Takes Part in Discovering Biggest Black Holes Yet (Chinese Version)
CNA (2011/12/05) The U.S.-based astronomer from Taiwan Chung-Pei MA and his colleague Nicholas MCCONNELL reported that they have taken the measure of two biggest black holes yet found in the universe, each of which has a mass ten billion times higher than the sun. The findings will be published la
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Taiwan Astronomers Begin ALMA Early Science Projects (Chinese Version)
Academia Sinica Newsletter (2011/10/25) Humanity's most complex ground-based astronomy observatory in northern Chile was opened for use by astronomers on September 30. Out of around 900 applications from astronomers around the world, Taiwan succeeded in leading 8 of the 112 projects accepted.
The Atacama Large Millimeter
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Taiwan Researchers Contribute to the First Capture of Blackhole's Swallowing a Star, Findings of Which Are Lately Published in 《Nature》 (Chinese Version)
CNA (2011/09/01) & udn.com (2011/09/02) NASA released the findings of the first-ever capture of the process of a star's being swallowed by blackhole this March lately, and Taiwan scientists made contributions to it as well. A letter introduci
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Taiwanese Astronomers Find Gamma Ray Emissions in Southern Cross Binary Star (Chinese Version)
Taipei Times (2011/07/24) Astronomers in Taiwan recently discovered gamma ray emissions in a binary star system in the Southern Cross.
The discovery was made by a research team led by Professor Albert KONG at the Institute of Astronomy and Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University, in
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Taiwan's Largest Telescope to Be Completed in 2016: National Central University (Chinese Version)
National Central University News (2011/07/13) & CNA (2011/07/12) The construction of the largest telescope in Taiwan by National Central University (NCU) will be completed in 2016 and is expected to significantly boost Taiwan's ability to conduct astronomical observations, university officials sai
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Taiwanese High School Students Discover Asteroids (Chinese Version)
CNA (2011/05/27) A team of high school students from Taiwan has discovered four among the 22 asteroids lately found during an asteroid search campaign organized by the International Astronomical Search Collaboration (IASC) , an official from National Central University (NCU) said on May 26.
The team of more than 10 students
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Academia Sinica Astrophysicists Receive 12-meter Radio Antenna from US National Science Foundation (Chinese Version)
Academia Sinica Newsletter (2011/04/14) The US National Science Foundation (NSF) announced recently that an international collaboration led by Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA) has been selected to receive a 12-meter radio antenna designed for submi
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Asteroid Entitled Likwohting to Honor Taiwan Sci-tech Magnate (Chinese Version)
CNA (2011/01/26) Two more days will be the 101st anniversary of the birth of the late Taiwan sci-tech magnate Kwohting LI. In order to honor as well as in memory of Kwohting LI for his contribution to Taiwan, National Central University held a press conference on January 26 and announced that a newly discovered ast
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Academia Sinica: Monstrous Dusty Galaxies May be more Common in the Early Universe than Originally Thought (Chinese Version)
Academia Sinica Newsletter (2010/12/21) Dusty galaxies existed at very early times in the history of the Universe; however, because these galaxies are heavily obscured in dust and do not emit much visible light, they have been difficult to study. Recently, an internation
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TWAS Elects 5 Academicians as Members, 1 Research Fellow at Academia Sinica Receives a Prize (Chinese Version)
Academia Sinica Newsletter (2010/10/21) The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS) announced the election of five Academia Sinica Academicians among its 2010 list of new members on October 19. In addition, a Distinguished Research Fellow of Academia Sinica received an awa
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CSIST Continues to Contract in to ALMA's Front End Service Vehicle Research and Production Program (Chinese Version)
Military News Agency (2010/08/08) Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology (CSIST) has successfully contracted with National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), U.S., into the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array Project (ALMA)'s research and production plan agai
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Academia Sinica Astronomers Develop New Techniques for Studying Dark Energy (Chinese Version)
Academia Sinica Newsletter (2010/07/26) A multinational team of astronomers have developed new techniques to map large cosmic structures and delved further into the nature of the enigmatic “dark energy” postulated to make up the most of mass and energy of the Universe. The project, initiated by Dr. Tz
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Astrophysicists Illuminate Shape of Dark Matter's Distribution (Chinese Version)
Academia Sinica Newsletter (2010/04/29) Dark matter is an enigma of the cosmos that has fascinated astrophysicists for many years. The existence of dark matter was originally hypothesized to account for discrepancies found between measurements of the mass of galaxies, clusters of galaxies and the entire Universe;
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Astrophysicists Capture Growth of Galaxy Clusters, the Largest Cosmic Structures (Chinese Version)
Academia Sinica Newsletter (2010/04/07) Galaxy clusters are the largest known gravitationally-bound objects in the Universe. For the first time a team of astrophysicists including Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Nobuhiro OKABW and Associate Research Fellow Dr. Keiichi UMETSU from the Institute of Astrono
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Astronomers Find New Type of Explosive Outflow in the Orion Nebula (Chinese Version)
Academia Sinica Newsletter (2009/10/26) It is now well known that in the later stages of star formation, some of the circumstellar material will be expelled carrying away excess angular momentum. This allows the material which has less angular momentum to continue to fall towards the central star. This phenom
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Asteroid Kaohsiung, the First Asteroid Discovered by Amateur Astronomer in Taiwan (Chinese Version)
BCC & udn.com (2009/10/19) The “Sky Survey Team” (trans. temp.) formed of the amateur astronomer in Kaohsiung Yuan-sheng TSAI et al, discovered a newly observed asteroid with National Central University's Lulin Observatory in April 2009; they entitled the asteroid “Kaohsiung.” In August, Commi
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400 Years of Heaven Gazing, NSC 2009 Science Season About to Start (Chinese Version)
National Educational Radio (2009/07/27) Hosted by NSC, “2009 Science Season: 400 Years of Heaven Gazing” is about to begin since 8th-Aug. To 13th-Sep. at Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall. The exhibition includes 10 themed zones, such as “Starry Corridor” and “Remote Observing Center,” and 31 exhibits. The exhibi
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Lulin Observatory Names the Newly Observed Asteroid “Yushan” (Chinese Version)
Radio Taiwan International et al. (2009/07/14) Most of the press in Taiwan reported the news at the first place when National Central University announced the newly observed Asteroid No. 185546 (observed in Lulin Observatory on 28th-Dec. 2007) was officially entitled “Yushan” on 14th-Jul., right after the entitleme
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Academia Sinica Astrophysicist Frank SHU Awarded 2009 Shaw Prize in Astronomy (Chinese Version)
Academia Sinica Newsletter (2009/06/16) Academician Frank SHU has been awarded the 2009 Shaw Prize in Astronomy, the Shaw Prize Foundation announced June 16.
The Shaw Prize is awarded in three fields: the Astronomy, Life Science and Medicine, and Mathematical Sciences. It is awarded annually
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International Astronomy Research Team Finds Key Information about Formation of Massive Stars (Chinese Version)
Academia Sinica Newsletter (2009/06/12) An international team of astronomers including Ramprasad RAO from Academia Sinica - Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA) has confirmed that the process of formation of massive stars is governed by the interstellar magnetic fields.
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ScienceDaily (June 10, 2009) — Dark matter is an enigmatic energy that makes up most of the mass in the Universe, whose nature has not yet been identified. Researchers have succeeded in estimating the percentage of dark matter in the Universe and describing the processes related to the very existence of this matter. But, until now, no one has established the distribution and behavior of the dark m
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ScienceDaily (May 15, 2009) — NASA's Kepler spacecraft has begun its search for other Earth-like worlds. The mission, which launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on March 6, will spend the next three-and-a-half years staring at more than 100,000 stars for telltale signs of planets. Kepler has the unique ability to find planets as small as Earth that orbit sun-like stars at distances where temperatur
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