The 2014 Spaceborne Earth Observations and Global Change (SEOGC) Summer School was successfully held in the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) during the week of July 14 - 19. Over 140 participants, including undergraduate and graduate students, postdocs a...
Chinese astronomers have reported the discovery of 28 candidate high-velocity stars, stars that whizz around so fast that they may escape from the Milky Way galaxy. The superfast moving stars are found at distances of up to one third ofthe distance to the center of our Milky Way, with speeds in e...
SHAO was formally established in 1962 following the amalgamation of the former Xujiahui (originally spelt Zi-Ka-Wei) and Sheshan observatories, which were founded by the French Mission Catholique in 1872 and 1900 respectively.
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