Some filament eruptions are triggered by reconnection between the filament and emerging flux. The details of such a reconnection are, however, rarely presented. Researchers from NAOC study the detailed reconnection, which led to the reconfiguration and subsequent partial eruption of the filament, and propose that besides the orientation of the emerging fields, the position, distance, strength, and area are also crucial for triggering the filament eruption.

With the Parkes radio telescope in Australia, researchers from NAOC discovered a new 5.78 ms-period millisecond pulsar (MSP), PSR J1740?5340B (NGC 6397B), in an eclipsing binary system, which was confirmed by the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa.