From October to November 2025, the Mayor of Pescara, Italy, together with representatives from leading Italian research institutions, visited the Department of Astronomy at Tsinghua University, laying a solid foundation for deepened collaboration in astrophysics between China and Italy. This series of visits included an initial meeting on October 20 by Pescara Mayor Carlo Masci and the city's D...
The Department of Astronomy at Tsinghua University and the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) formally established and deepened their long-term strategic partnership by signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) via a virtual ceremony. It is noteworthy that the Tsinghua Department of Astronomy is the first university department in Mainland of China to sign an MoU with CITA,...
From June 18th to 20th, 2025, the symposium "Ten Billion Years of Galactic Ecosystem Evolution" was successfully held at the Department of Astronomy, Tsinghua University. Over 30 experts from more than ten domestic universities and research institutions gathered at Tsinghua to engage in in-depth discussions on the observational, theoretical, and numerical simulation studies of galactic ecosyste...
On April 1–2, 2025, the Department of Astronomy at Tsinghua University hosted a workshop titled "Opportunities and Challenges in Modeling Nearby Galaxies in the JWST Era." More than 30 researchers from universities and research institutes across China gathered to engage in in-depth discussions on frontier topics of nearby galaxies.Group photo of the workshopThe workshop featured 16 presentatio...
EPFL officially joined the Multi Spectroscopic Telescope (MUST) project, led by China’s Tsinghua University, as a founding member. This flagship project will enable scientists to better understand the young universe, dark energy and dark matter.Approximatively 13.8 billion years ago the Universe began with what we call the Big Bang. It expanded explosively, faster than the speed of light. Even...