World's largest robotic telescope goes into operation at CAS

Lijiang 2.4, one of the world largest fully robotic astronomical telescopes, was put into operation on12 May at the CAS Yunnan Observatory, the highest of four     

Shooting Thousands of Stars at Once

It might be difficult to kill three birds with one stone. How about four thousand？ A huge ＂gun＂ can do this. Located in Xinglong County, Heibei Province, the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope （LAMOST） is able to observe 4,000 celestial bodies at a shot. The large volume of data collected is expected to greatly boost the pursuit of some fundamental astronomical issues.     

Creating a National Astronomical Research Center of International Prestige

I. The Creation of an Integrated Astronomical Research Center Following the launch of the CAS’s Knowledge In- novation Program (KIP) pilot project in 1998, it was formally decided in April 1999 to merge the following CAS institutions: five astronomical o…     

MPS/CAS Partner Group on Radio Astronomy

The Partner Group does research on cosmic magnetic fields using radio astronomy methods. Magnetic fields are found in every astronomical object: the Earth, the Sun,planets, stars, pulsars, the Milky Way,nearby galaxies and in distant radio galaxies. The role of the magnetic fields in the cosmic universe has not been well investigated, mainly because of the difficulties of their observation.     

MPS／CAS Partner Group on Cosmology

The Partner Group does research in cosmology, focussing on the quantitative modeling of the structure and evolution of galaxies and galaxy clusters, the pattern of galaxies and of larger structures. The usual approach in this field is the dark matter paradigm, i.e. the assumption that the basic structures are laid out in a matter component of particles which interact only gravitationally. Numerical simulations of large scale and high resolution are used to follow the evolution of condensations of dark matter particles during cosmological evolution. Analytic models and detailed statistical investigations of astronomical data sets supplement the numerical work.     

China,Chile to Launch Joint Astronomical Data Center

<正>An agreement to create the China-Chile Joint Astronomical Data Center was signed in Santiago between the National Astronomical Observatories,Chinese Academy of Sciences(NAOC),Huawei Chile,and the Technical University of Federico Santa Maria of Chile(UTFSM)on May 25,2015.Featuring the high-speed transmission,mass storage,and high-performance computing of massive astronomical data,the Center will facilitate astronomers from both nations to share the enormous data produced by the state-ofthe-art telescopes based in Chile,such as ALMA in northern     

China and Chile Launch Joint Research Center for Astronomy

The China-Chile Joint Research Center for Astronomy was officially inaugurated at the National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing on February 1, 2013. With China’s expertise in astronomical theories, numerical simulation and telescope building, and the ideal observation environment and state-of-the-art telescopes in Chile, the center aims at     

Large-scale Facilities for Astronomical Observation

<正>Driven by the rapid development of astronomical studies pursued by researchers at different astronomical observato riesunderits administration, the Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS) has designed and built a series of large-scale facilitiesfor astronomical observations over the past four decades. Among them are some high-profile ones, represented by the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope(LAMOST) and the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope(FAST).     

Chinese,Chilean Presidents Witness Signing of MoU on Joint Astronomical Observatories

正On November 22,2016,at the witness of Chinese President XI Jinping and Chilean President Michelle Bachelet,a Memorandum of Understanding was inked by YAN Jun,director general of the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(NAOC)and Jorge Tabiloálvarez,President of the Catholic University of the North(UCN),to jointly establish an astronomical observation base in Chile.     

MPS／CAS Partner Group on Radio Astronomy

The Partner Group does research on cosmic magnetic fields using radio astronomy methods. Magnetic fields are found in every astronomical object: the Earth, the Sun, planets, stars, pulsars, the Milky Way, nearby galaxies and in distant radio galaxies. The role of the magnetic fields in the cosmic universe has not been well investigated, mainly because of the difficulties of their observation. The Partner Group has executed several successful observational projects using the 100m radio telescope in Effelsberg, the Very Large Array in the USA and the Australia Telescope National Facilities to collect polarization data tracing the magnetic fields in the Milky Way. The group further plans to install a 6cm receiver system in a 25m radio telescope in Urumqi next summer to make polarization observations that give an unambiguous picture of magnetic field structures emerging from the disk of the Milky Way.