Good News: Our station has won the Second Prize for Technical Invention in the 11th "Science and Technology Award of the Chinese Society of Optics Engineering."

At the 2025 China International Western Optoelectronics Conference on December 13, during the award ceremony for the 11th China Optical Engineering Society Science and Technology Award—a prestigious accolade in China's optical engineering field—our institute, as the second c...

2026-10-09

2025 Annual Academic Conference on China's Satellite Laser Ranging Network Concludes in Shanghai

The 2025 Annual Academic Conference on China's Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR) Network was successfully held in Shanghai from November 26 to 29. Jointly organized by the China Satellite Laser Ranging Network and the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sci...

2025-12-03

Astronomers Reveal the ‘Farthest-Inbound’ Comet Ever Seen: A 6-Million-Year Journey from the Edge of Our Solar System

An international team of astronomers has published the first detailed study of C/2025 D1 (Groeller), a comet that will make the most distant closest approach to the Sun of any known comet. This icy wanderer, discovered earlier this year, is giving astronomers a unique window i...An international team of astronomers has published the first detailed study of C/2025 D1 (Groeller), a comet that will make the most distant closest approach to the Sun of any known comet. This icy wanderer, discovered earlier this year, is giving astronomers a unique window i...

2026-01-20

Professor Mario Gilberto Lattanzi Visits SHAO

Mario Gilberto Lattanzi, a professor of Academy of Sciences INAF- Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino, Italy, is now a visiting scientist at SHAO. Lattanzi has practiced space science since the beginning of his carrier as a research astronomer in 1987, and he has had the ra...

2015-04-02

Shanghai 65-Meter Radio Telescope Sees the First Light

After three years’ construction, the Shanghai 65-Meter Radio Telescope is close to its completion. In the second half of October, 2012, the mechanical structure, electrical system, network, control software of the telescope have been tested and they run smoothly. The test exp...

2013-12-18

Prof. Willem A. Baan awarded “Visiting Professor of the CAS”

Prof. Willem A. Baan was awarded the Visiting Professor of the CAS and works in Shanghai Astronomical Observatory since 2013 February.　 Prof. Baan is a distinguished expert in astronomical masers and ultra-luminous galaxies. As the first-author and co‑author, he has more th...

2013-12-18