The School of Astronomy and Space Science at Nanjing University was established in March 2011, and its predecessor, the Department of Astronomy, was founded in 1952. It earns the longest history and a high reputation among the astronomy departments in China. Current research activities mainly cover high-energy astrophysics, solar physics, galaxy evolution, extra-solar planets, astronautic dynamics, astrometry and space science. The School owns Near-Infrared Solar Eruption Tracer (ONSET) and Time Domain Observatory (TiDO), and has contracts with world-class institutions including IRAM, SAO, the Astrophysical Research Consortium, for the access to the NOEMA Interferometer, SMA and SDSS-V respectively. The faculty members also involved in developing instrumentation such as Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory, Lobster-eye X-ray Observatory, Chinese Hα Solar Explorer, Zitong Space-based Telescope, etc. The School offers an exceptional research environment and is now staffed with 42 faculty and 10 full-time scientific researchers, as well as 7 postdoctoral fellows.

The discipline of astronomy and space science at Nanjing University has been selected into the National “Double first class” Initiative. Taking such achievement as a starting point, the School will strive t...