A wonderful English salon titled “ The Evolution of Different Cultures in Pakistan ” , as a part of serial activities by the labour union group of the Center for Astro-geodynamics Research , was held at SHAO on September 28th .Shan Munawar , from Pakistan , joined and , from a native ’ s perspective , led us into a splendid and ...
10 12, 2016
A fascinating English salon titled “An astronomer’s eyes above clouds, an amateur’s glance at aviation”, as a part of serial activities by the labour union group of the Center for Astro-geodynamics Research, was held at SHAO on August 8th. Dr. Dali Kong from University of Exeter, UK, with his own experience, joined and brought ...
08 24, 2016
Nowadays , multi-Global Navigation Satellite Systems ( GNSS ) have been developed and widely used , including US ' s GPS , Russia ' s GLONASS , China ' s BeiDou and EU ' s Galileo as well as regional systems .Shanghai , China . The recent advances , opportunities and challenges on GNSS were presented and discussed , including GNSS ...
08 10, 2016
As a part of serial activities by the labour union group of the Center for Astro-geodynamics Research , a fascinating English salon titled “ Sea Navigation ” was held at SHAO on July 6th .Andy Calabia from Spain joined and shared with us many practical techniques as well as great happiness .Researchers including several internati...
07 14, 2016
Dr . Li Yiliang , from Department of Earth Sciences , the University of Hong Kong , gave us a splendid presentation titled “ Astrobiology : The Origin , Evolution and Destiny of life in the Universe ” on invitation at SHAO , 5 July .With great enthusiasm , dozens of researchers and students attended the presentation and made effe...
07 14, 2016
An international team of researchers , led by Shanghai Astronomical Observatory , have uncovered a new technique for peering into the outer-most regions of our Galaxy .Left : An illustration showing the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy being devoured by the Milky Way . This process leaves long tails of debris stretching around our entire g...
07 05, 2016
In about 5 billion years, our sun will evolve to be a red giant, expanding out beyond the orbit of Venus. When our sun has used up its fuel, its core will collapse and its outer gas layer will be expelled by strong stellar winds. After being illuminated by the ultraviolet radiation of the hot luminous core, the dissipated gas laye...
08 05, 2016
[ June 8 , An international research team discovered single radio - luminous black holes from candidate binaries with powerful highest - resolution imaging techniques .The supermassive black hole ( up to billions of solar masses ) residing in the heart of the active galaxy is accreting material from its surroundings , and releasing...
06 08, 2016
Linear carbon-chain molecules like CnH , HCnN and CnS are observed to be abundant in cold dense clouds .To date , abundant long carbon-chain molecules have only been found in two molecular clouds – Taurus Molecular Cloud 1 ( TMC-1 ) and Lupus molecular cloud 1A ( Lupus-1A ) — and the envelop of a carbon star IRC +.On the column d...
05 27, 2016
As a part of serial activities by the labour union group of the Center for Astro-geodynamics Research , a wonderful English salon with a local color , titled “ Local Fair and Festival Culture in the USA ” was held at SHAO on May 19th .Dr . Sarah Bird from the USA joined and shared with us much .Researchers including several inter...
05 24, 2016
As a part of serial activities by the labour union group of the Center for Astro-geodynamics Research , an English salon , titled “ Car , Car Use and Car Culture ” was held at SHAO on April 12th .Professor Zhang Keke from University of Exeter , UK joined and hosted our salon , making splendid communications with us .Welcome to ou...
05 24, 2016
An international team of astronomers led by Dr . Andrea Kunder of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam ( AIP ) in Germany and Dr . R . Michael Rich of UCLA has discovered that the central 2000 light years within the Milky Way Galaxy hosts an ancient population of stars .
04 26, 2016
Our Milky Way Galaxy is not alone in space. There are a number of smaller satellite galaxies which orbit around it. In the southern hemisphere, one can easily see two of our closest neighbours without a telescope, which are the well-known Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, about 160,000--200,000 light years away from us. What these...
04 07, 2016
Dr. Su Xiaoli, from The Ohio State University of USA, gave us a splendid presentation titled “Inter-annual Ice Mass Variations over Greenland and Antarctica Combining GRACE Gravimetry and Envisat Altimetry” on invitation at SHAO, 26 February, 2016. Dozens of researchers attended the presentation and made effective communications ...
03 07, 2016
Taking our Galaxy as a vast sea, astronomers are the fishing men using telescopes to catch light from different objects. Recently, thanks to the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope
02 22, 2016
