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 ...

LAMOST became the first sky survey telescope in the world to release over 10 million spectra in 2019. Over the last four years, the number of spectra acquired by LAMOST has doubled, the NAOC noted.

Joint observations with NASA’s Kepler satellite and China’s LAMOST telescope could tell us how planets outside our solar system are formed. A team, including a Peking University researcher ...

A Chinese telescope has collected data on more than 7 million stars to compile the world’s largest database on cosmic states of motion, mass, temperature and chemical composition. The Large Sky ...

If we could find a way to move LAMOST here, we’d simply have less clouds and many additional clear nights for observation,” said Zhao, who has been working with the telescope for more than two ...

The telescope's diverse stellar data, ranging from bright giants to dim dwarfs, enabled the team to chart extinction curves across a depth of 16,000 light years, revealing dramatic regional ...