This photo taken on Feb. 26, 2024 shows China\’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) under maintenance in southwest China\’s Guizhou Province. China\’s Five-hundred-meter Apertur
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China\’s gigantic telescope detects over 900 new pulsars
GUIYANG, April 17 (Xinhua) — China\’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), the world\’s largest single-dish radio telescope, has identified more than 900 new pulsars since its
Astronomers reveal formation process of primitive star clusters
BEIJING, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) — An international team of astronomers has unveiled the findings of a study on the formation process of high-mass protostellar clusters, where stars like the sun originate.
China\’s sky survey telescope finds two near-Earth asteroids
BEIJING, Nov. 29 (Xinhua) — A wide-field telescope capable of surveying the entire sky from the Northern Hemisphere has discovered two near-Earth asteroids, astronomers said.
The two celestial bodies
Huge blobs in Earth\’s mantle might be relics from moon-forming collision: study
SHANGHAI, Nov. 2 (Xinhua) — An international team of scientists from China and the United States has made a remarkable discovery, suggesting that two massive objects buried in the Earth\’s deep mantle
China\’s wide-field survey telescope to be operational
BEIJING, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) — A wide-field telescope capable of surveying the entire sky from the Northern Hemisphere will soon be put into operation in northwest China\’s Qinghai Province, its makers s
More grand discoveries made at FAST
The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope in Guizhou province on June 23. [Photo/Xinhua]
Scientists use telescope to find evidence of nanohertz gravitational waves
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Chinese astronomers uncover new discoveries about two comets
Photo taken on July 18, 2020 shows Comet NEOWISE in the starry sky over the Ming\’antu observing station of the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in Zhengxiangbai