National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) and Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO), CAS jointly organized the fourth in a series of China-U.S. radio astronomy workshop, entitled "Scientific and Technical Drivers for the Next Generation of Radio Telescopes." The workshop was held at SHAO in Shanghai from October 14th to 16th ...
10 30, 2015
Dr. Michael Busch, from SETI Institute of USA, gave us a splendid presentation titled “Radar Astronomy and Near-Earth Asteroids” on invitation at SHAO, 8 October, 2015. Dozens of researchers attended the presentation and made effective communications as well.
10 12, 2015
A new study led by an astronomer from Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) has found evidence revealing a cosmic cannibalizing event --- M81, one of the nearest massive galaxies, is eating two neighboring smaller galaxies and continues to grow. “This is the first endeavor beyond the Local Group of galaxies to demonstrate the h...
09 18, 2015
APSG 2015 International Symposium of Asia-Pacific Space Geodynamics (APSG) Program, was successfully held in Moscow, capital of the Russian Federation, 24-28 August, 2015. Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences is one of the
09 15, 2015
SHAO astronomers have studied the emission properties of the second transitional millisecond pulsar binary in the gamma-ray band. Combining other multiband information, they have revealed the physics behind the transitional phase.
09 06, 2015
Two giant gamma-ray bubbles above and below the Galactic plane were discovered by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope on 2010. How did the called Fermi bubbles form? How can we explain their observational characteristics, such as their morphology, distribution of surface brightness and so on? In the last years, astronomers from
08 25, 2015
On August 21 of 2015, Professor Melanie Johnston-Hollitt from Victoria University of Wellington, who is also the Chairperson of the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) Board, and Dr. Luke Pratley and Dr. Qian Zheng visited Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO), and had a conversation with Director Xiaoyu Hong, the Academician of th...
08 25, 2015
The Milky Way Galaxy, our home, is not just a spiral galaxy, but a barred spiral. About two thirds of spiral galaxies are classified as barred spirals, among which one type is even more special by hosting two bars. These are termed spiral galaxies with two bars (S2B in short. In Chinese, 2B often means being idiotic when it is used...
07 22, 2015
The 2nd International Association of Planetary Sciences (IAPS) Scientific Assembly (IAPS2015) was held at the Kazan Federal University, 1-4 June 2015, Kazan, Russia, which presented the recent results of the research in space geodesy, dynamical astronomy, astrometry and planetary sciences, and
06 04, 2015
Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) celebrates the 11th annual Public Open Day of the China Academy of Science (CAS) on May 16-17, also the National Science and Technology Week, as well as the International Day of Museum on May 18, with a variety of activities. It includes the opening of Shanghai Key Laboratory of Space Naviga...
05 21, 2015
In July 1 – 5, 2015，an international meeting “Black Hole Accretion and AGN Feedback”, organized by Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), will be held in Shanghai. This conference is co-chaired by Prof. Feng Yuan (the director of the Research Center for Galaxies and Cosmology), Prof. ...
05 21, 2015
On April 8, 2015, the Shanghai Astronomical Society and the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) ran a seminar to explain the current strategy and future plan of science communication and call for more researchers to provide
04 16, 2015
In the current universe, large scale environments are mainly consists of these four types: clusters, filaments, sheets and voids. According to the current paradigm of galaxy formation, these structures arise from the linear growth of density fluctuations in a nearly homo
03 23, 2015
Cosmic dust —— dust in space—— includes intergalactic dust, interstellar dust, interplanetary dust and circumplanetary dust, which can cause not only extinction but also reddening for the remote background objects. Cosmic dust extinction plays a very important role in cosmological study. For example, the existence of cosmic...
03 20, 2015
Using the observational data from the 2.4-m Lijiang Telescope (LJT) in Yunnan China, the 6.5-m Multiple Mirror Telescope (MMT), and the 8.4-m Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) in Arizona, USA, the 6.5m Magellan Telescope in Las Campanas Observatory, Chile, and the 8.2-m Gemini North Telescope in Mauna Kea, Hawaii, USA, an internatio...
03 04, 2015
