Another "first"! China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) has reported good news again.

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17/07/2025
In recent days, the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with domestic and international research institutions, using the 500-meter aperture spherical radio telescope, observed for the first time a complex filamentous structural network dominated by supersonic turbulence in an interstellar gas cloud moving at ultra-high speed within the Milky Way. This achievement provides a new perspective on the early evolution mechanisms of interstellar media in structure formation. The related findings were published online in the international academic journal "Nature Astronomy" on July 16, 2025.