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BEIJING, Dec. 22 (Xinhua) -- Chinese astronomers signed an agreement with officials of the Qinghai provincial government on Wednesday in Beijing to jointly buil

XINING, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- A 5.3-magnitude earthquake jolted Mangya City of northwest China Qinghai Province at 7:54 a.m. on Sunday (Beijing Time), according t

The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST), a leading optical telescope project in China, will move from the northern province of Hebei to Qinghai in the northwest for better performance and clearer astronomical observation.

XINING, Dec. 8 (Xinhua) -- The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST), a leading optical telescope project in China, will move from

The installation of the first Planetary Atmosphere Spectroscopic Telescope (PAST) has finished on Sunday night, marking China’s first ground-based planetary telescope installation in Qinghai Province.

Lenghu on the Tibetan Plateau was abandoned when the oil ran out in the 1960s.

At more than 2.5 kilometers high, Lenghu is “known to have a clear sky as usual,” says Licai Deng, a scientist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and

Chinese scientists have found that the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau could be suitable for installing next-generation large astronomical telescopes, according to a new study published in the journal Nature.

While the study of the area is released now, details of the proposed observatory had been reported in April this year.

A new potential astronomical observation site on the Tibetan Plateau is detailed in a paper in Nature. Sometimes nicknamed the Earth's "third pole", this...