Recently, an international team led by Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), has developed a quantifiable, verifiable, and scalable standardized workflow for identifying Compact Symmetric Objects (CSOs), derived from milliarcsecond-level alignment between optical and radio positions by combining the ...
12 10, 2025
Recently, a research team led by Prof. Peng Wang at the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), achieved significant progress in the field of galaxy cluster angular momentum. Utilizing large-sample spectroscopic data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), the team systematically revealed for ...
12 10, 2025Prof. Tao An from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) proposed a novel "Precessing Magnetic Jet Engine" model to explain the peculiar Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) 250702B, discovered on July 2, 2025. Over more than three hours, this GRB exhibited periodic flares approximately every 47 minutes. The new model not only elucidates th...
12 03, 2025
A research team led by Dr. Lu Li and Prof. Zhengyi Shao from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO), Chinese Academy of Sciences, has released a new, homogeneous catalog of physical parameters for 1,232 open clusters derived from Gaia DR3 data.
11 28, 2025
A latest cosmological simulation study has systematically revealed, for the first time, how the interaction between dark matter and dark energy significantly influences the rotation and shape alignment of dark matter halos in the universe. This research provides a new perspective for understanding the formation of large-scale cosmi...
11 25, 2025
From October 27 to 29, 2025, the "CSST-MCI Early Science Workshop" was held at the Shanghai Astronomy Museum of the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, CAS. The event was co-organized by the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the CSST (China Space-Station Survey Telescope) Yangtze River Delta Re...
10 29, 2025
The Shanghai Astronomical Observatory PIFI Distinguished Team Project successfully held a series of international exchange activities in Shanghai from October 13 to October 25, 2025.
10 29, 2025
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, 2025
Recently, 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, 2025
An 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, 2025
Recently, 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, 2025
Recently, 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, 2025
