Taiwan Astronomical Research Alliance

Science Highlights

Astronomers Discover New Distant Object “Ammonite,” Unveiling Mysteries of Solar System’s Outer Frontier

ALMA Captures the Birthplace of a Magnetized Protostellar Jet for the First Time

Galaxies in Motion: How Cosmic Collisions Reshape Their Chemical Makeup

Resolved gas temperatures and 12C/13C ratios in SVS13A from ALMA Observations of CH3CN and CH3-13-CN

Unusual White Dwarf Explosions Displaying Exceptional Ultraviolet Excess

Inferring Obscured Cosmic Black Hole Accretion History from AGN Found by JWST/MIRI CEERS Survey

Multiple Outflows around a Single Protostar IRAS 15398−3359

Resolved Measurements of the CO-to-H2 Conversion Factor in 37 Nearby Galaxies

Multiple Misaligned Outflows and Warped Accretion Flows

Dense Molecular Gas in Green Valley Galaxies

Rapid Spin Changes Around a Magnetar Fast Radio Burst

Exploring the Dominant Impact of Quenching Mechanisms

Unveiling protostellar disk polarization with ALMA

RR Lyrae in Virgo III

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Announcement & News

• LOT 2026A Observing Schedule

• Giant Magellan Telescope Advances to National Science Foundation Final Design Phase

• Announcement of the 2025 Summer Student Acceptance List and Campus Visit Schedule

• "A Star is Born... in a Burger full of Space Dust and Organics!" -- Is Showcased at Open Museum's Annual Exhibition on May 18, 2025

• Lulin Observatory’s Assistant Specialist, Atayal Warrior Jiun-Shiung Shih, Retires: A Touching Conclusion to 25 Years of Stargazing in the High Mountains

Upcoming Events

• ALMA at 15 years: Science, Synergies, and the Road Ahead (February 22 - 26, 2027)
• 2026 Taiwan Astronomy Annual Meeting (Pre-announcement; May 15 - 17, 2026)

Previous Events

Award

• Students of the TARA Alliance received Honorable Mention for Poster Presentation (Angel Rodriguez Barbosa; Srivardini Ayyappan; NTHU), and Excellence in Poster Presentation Award (Tsz-Hei Chan/NTHU; Meng-Zhe Yang/NTHU) at the 2026 TPS Annual Meeting
• IANCU PhD student Aiswarya Sankar.K has been awarded the 2026 AAPPS Award
• NTHU PhD student Surojit Saha (IoA) has been awarded the 2025 AAPPS Award

• Students of the TARA Alliance received the Best Oral Presentation Award (Jyun-Heng Lin/NTNU), Honorable Mention for Poster Presentation (Mohanraj Madheshwaran/NCHU; Yu-An Chen, Shang-Jing Lin/NTHU; Hua-Shan Shih, Jia-Syuan Wu, Chen-Yu Tai, Meng-Han Lee/NCU), and Excellence in Poster Presentation Award (Ting-Kai Yang/NTU; Yi-De Lee/NCKU) at the 2025 TPS Annual Meeting

• IAA Distinguished Research Fellow Chin-Fei Lee awarded the Ministry of Education's 68th Annual Academic Award

• IANCU Professor Wen-Ping Chen awarded National Central University 2024 Industry-Academia Contribution Award

• NTNU Professor Yueh-Ning Lee won the 2024 NCTS Young Theorist Award