The new Wide Field Survey Telescope(WFST),located on the summit of Saishiteng Mountain,Lenghu Town,Qinghai Province of China,officially went into operation on September 17th,and released its first-light image-a portra...
A team of researchers led by Dr.ZHANG Xuejun at the Changchun Institute of Optics,Fine Mechanics and Physics(CIOMP)of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has successfully created the world’s largest silicon carbide(SiC)a...
NAN Rendong,a distinguished expert in radio astronomy who is known as the father of the world’s largest radio telescope,died from lung cancer in Boston on September 15,2017 at the age of 72.His untimely passing away ...
After more than five years of construction,the world’s biggest single-dish radio telescope was finally ready to open its eye.On September 25,2016,the Fivehundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope(FAST)was offi...
On April 22,2013 , the CAS Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth (RADI), China's largest in the field, convened a meeting to mark its formal inauguration. Its title plate was jointly unveiled by senior officia...
While observing the world around us via an optical telescope with information carried by visible light,which constitutes only a small portion of the electromagnetic spectrum,astronomers use the remainder of the spectrum
How has the universe been formed and evolved? What about the Milky Way consisting of hundreds of billions of stars? These questions have kept people wondering in the history of human civilization. The wide field and l...
China is believed to be a countryespecially endowed with the fossilsand materials related to early humanevolution, next only to the Africancontinent in terms of fecundityand systematism.
A 20-ha Tropical Rainforest Dynamics Plot, located in Xishuangbanna in southwestern Yunnan Province, was recently established by the CAS Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) and the Xishuangbanna National Na...