Before you even enter the new Shanghai Astronomy Museum, you feel like you have entered the realm of space. Overhead view of the Ennead Architects-designed Shanghai Astronomy Museum. Bird's eye view ...

Dr. Yunjuan He, associate professor of Chinese, teaches students during the July 2019 STARTALK academy on UNG's Dahlonega Campus. A new STARTALK grant will fund another camp, plus tutoring and ...

The Star Manual of Master Shi is an ancient Chinese star catalog now claimed by astronomers at the Chinese National Astronomical Observatories (NAO) to be the oldest surviving star catalog globally.

The Historical Astronomy Division (HAD) of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) has awarded its 2011 Donald E. Osterbrock Book Prize to Nathan Sivin for his landmark volume “Granting the Seasons: ...

Chinese astronomers hope to establish a major observatory program on the roof of the world, the Tibetan Plateau, with new research arguing for pristine observing conditions nestled in the uplands. The ...

SHANGHAI — When the telescope at eastern China’s Purple Mountain observatory captured a snippet of a hitherto unknown asteroid in 1978, the astronomers named it after Ye Shuhua in honor of her ...

In the eighteenth century, from opposite ends of the world, a debate raged between two scholars over a seemingly esoteric question: did Chinese history predate Judeo-Christian antiquity? Antoine ...

This article offers a social and geographical network analysis of all attested works, authors, and practitioners in the mathematical sciences in China over the period of disunion and reunification ...

Dark, quiet, and cold as hell. That’s how Chinese astronomer Licai Deng describes the site on the Tibetan Plateau he and his colleague spent three years investigating as a possible location for large ...

THIS book treats of the usual subjects of elementary astronomy and, on the whole, it presents a satisfactory introduction for readers whose mathematical attainments are slight. Unfortunately, some ...

The University of North Georgia (UNG) has received a two-year STARTALK grant of more than $327,000 from the National Security Agency (NSA) to provide instruction on the Chinese language and astronomy ...