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Expanding astronomy research in Malaysia

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Astronomy research in Malaysia has progressed rapidly in the last few decades, with an increasing number of enthusiastic Malaysian astronomers working together to build new research groups and observing facilities, while establishing research networks both locally and globally.

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Fig. 1: The Langkawi National Observatory.
Fig. 2: The UPSI-UM Radio Astronomical Observatory.
Fig. 3: Malaysian radio astronomers and their collaborators gathered at the 1st Malaysian VLBI Workshop.

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Z.Z.A. thanks the University of Malaya for their Frontier Research Grant (FG033-17AFR) and Malaysia’s Ministry of Higher Education for their High Impact Research Grant (UM.S/625/3/HIR/28).

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  1. Department of Physics, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Zamri Zainal Abidin

  2. Razak Faculty of Technology and Informatics, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Mhd Fairos Asillam

  3. Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Taipei, Taiwan

    Jun Yi Koay

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Abidin, Z.Z., Asillam, M.F. & Koay, J.Y. Expanding astronomy research in Malaysia. Nat Astron 4, 1115–1117 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-020-01230-x

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