摘要
A research project to probe close binary stars was accepted on May 8 by anevaluation panel under the sponsor-ship of the CAS Kunming Branch in southwest China's YunnanProvince. A sky-watching project, under the title of An Observational Study on Special PhysicalProcesses Taking Place in Close Binary Stars, was initiated and completed by a research team withProf. Qian Shengbang as its head at Yunnan Observatory, a research affiliate of the NationalAstronomical Observatories of CAS. Binary stars are a unique kind of celestial bodies in the stellarworld, featuring a structural duality by always presenting themselves in pairs. There is a seriesof intensive and complicated events of interaction between the two component stars in each of them,giving rise to many special physical processes. Astro-physicists believe the latter hold the cluesfor demystifying several unsolved comic puzzles of vital importance.
