On October 17, 2025, the “SPHEREx and Earth 2.0 (ET) Space Mission Thinkshop”, hosted by the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), was successfully held in Shanghai. The workshop was co-chaired by Professor Shrinivas R. Kulkarni, 2024 Shaw Prize Laureate in Astronomy and professor at t...
10 21, 2025Recently, Dr. Peng Wang, a research fellow at the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has systematically revealed for the first time a significant directional alignment between the spins of galaxy groups and those of their central galaxies on the celestial projection plane. Using a large spectrosco...
10 21, 2025An international collaboration led by the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO), Chinese Academy of Sciences, has published a new study in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS) titled "CURLING II: Improvement of the H₀ Inference from Pixelized Cluster Strong Lens Modeling." This work presents, for the f...
10 21, 2025Recently, a joint research team led by the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences used the Tianma Radio Telescope to conduct multi-band radio observations of the returning comet 12P/Pons-Brooks (hereafter referred to as 12P). They systematically measured its water production rate during outburst activi...
10 17, 2025Recently, researchers from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO),the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC),Guizhou University and Yunnan Observatory, have made a collection of progress on pulsar searching, precision timing, pulsar emission properties for pulsars in Globular Clusters (G...
09 30, 2025A research team from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has used data from the SDSS MaNGA project to conduct a study on the origins of double-peaked narrow emission-line characteristics in galactic centers. This study found that these emission lines are not only related to binary black holes bu...
09 25, 2025A joint research team from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the University of Science and Technology of China used the Very Large Array to search for potential persistentradio emissionfrom FRB 20250316A, one of the brightest non-repeating bursts ever detected. The results, published in The A...
09 20, 2025Researchers from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have revealed for the first time how gas flows from vast distances toward the disk surrounding a nascent massive star in the process of star formation.
09 18, 2025Recently, a collaborative team from Yunnan University, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the University of Chile, among other domestic and international institutions, has revealed new observational evidence unraveling the mystery of massive star birth. The related findings have been published in th...
09 10, 2025In our traditional view, black holes are usually thought to “reside” at the centers of galaxies. However, a recent study has discovered a wondering black hole in a dwarf galaxy about 230 million light-years away (redshift z = 0.017). Unlike the norm, this black hole is not located at the galactic center but is offset by nearly ...
09 06, 2025Recently, the research team from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has achieved two significant advances in the field of Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) research, providing more reliable support for the detection of nanohertz gravitational waves. The related findings have been published in th...
08 14, 2025Recently, a research team led by scientists from Yunnan University, the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, in collaboration with researchers from Japan, Mexico, the United States, Germany, Chile, and Taiwan, China, utilized high-resolution observ...
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