"ASIAA's 30 Years in Time-lined Photos"
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(ASIAA published date：2024/5/22, last updated on 5/27)
Between November and December of last year, dozens of pictures were collected, printed and pasted on the big wall of ASIAA's 1st floor served as temporary display for the 30th anniversary celebrations.
Between November and December of last year, dozens of pictures were collected, printed and pasted on the big wall of ASIAA's 1st floor served as temporary display for the 30th anniversary celebrations.
Over the past a few months, Lauren Huang of EPO and a specialist from a museum's has helped resettled that collection into a timeline display at the Open Museum. With one more chapter added retrospectively looked at two years prior to 1993, when the preparatory office of ASIAA was about to be approved for setup by the ROC Presidential Office, the new on-line exhibition also pays tribute to the people, their efforts and vision that ultimately led to the establishing of ASIAA. Also, the very first success of our international collaboration, BIMA, is quickly set to start the Golden Age of Astronomy in Taiwan.
Over the past a few months, Lauren Huang of EPO and a specialist from a museum's has helped resettled that collection into a timeline display at the Open Museum. With one more chapter added retrospectively looked at two years prior to 1993, when the preparatory office of ASIAA was about to be approved for setup by the ROC Presidential Office, the new on-line exhibition also pays tribute to the people, their efforts and vision that ultimately led to the establishing of ASIAA. Also, the very first success of our international collaboration, BIMA, is quickly set to start the Golden Age of Astronomy in Taiwan.
Some names and faces of this picture are recognizable, thanks to Academician Paul Ho's eye-ball help.
New documentaries added to the 30th anniversary on-line exhibitions were filing images retrieved from the Modern History Institute of Academia Sinica.
ASIAA/NTU PhD students Wun-Yi Chen (陳文翊) and Po-Sheng Ou (歐柏昇), along with their Supervisor, Dr. Ke-Jung (Ken) Chen (ASIAA), have opened up a series of eye-catching windows for outreaching the team's latest Supernova simulations with supercomputers. Through the interactive website provided by the Open Museum, they explain the beauty and the science of exploding stars - when you "crack open a star"!
ASIAA/NTU PhD students Wun-Yi Chen (陳文翊) and Po-Sheng Ou (歐柏昇), along with their Supervisor, Dr. Ke-Jung (Ken) Chen (ASIAA), have opened up a series of eye-catching windows for outreaching the team's latest Supernova simulations with supercomputers. Through the interactive website provided by the Open Museum, they explain the beauty and the science of exploding stars - when you "crack open a star"!
Mr. Wun-Yi Chen commented: "We are enthusiastic and proud of this outreach endeavor because we have shown to the general public what scientists' latest thinking towards supernova explosions looks like and we've used a language that even a middle schooler can understand." For example, one of the key messages people should be able to immediately take home is, "there are different types of Supernova!" Wun-Yi says, which might not be readily known to kids of that age.
One of the must-sees in the show are beautiful results generated by simulations, but the reason is far more than that the simulations are eye-catching, Po-Sheng Ou, a member of this project, explains: "it's because we know that simulations really can see what telescopes can't - as telescopes can only stare at the stars for relatively shorter time, plus, it is also true that theoretical works can bring us breakthroughs!"
The exhibition team has also reached out to an award-winning young artist, Hu, Wen-Feng, of the Department of Graphic Arts Communication of the NTUA, for his rendering of a supernova., as shown in the image below.
The painting shows some phenomenon neither an observation nor a simulation of astrophysics can see. It depicts a scenario, where according to theorists, "interactions between shockwaves, glowing materials and clouds should all be at play", Wun-Yi says. (Image credit: Hu, Wen-Feng/ASIAA)
Related Link: Press Release of Academia Sinica: https://ascdc.sinica.edu.tw/news/6185
Written by: Lauren Huang/EPO
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