World's largest radio telescope completed in China
World's largest radio telescope completed in China
China on Sunday hoisted the final piece into position on what will be the world's
largest
radio telescope, which it will use to explore space and help in the hunt for
extraterrestrial
life, state media said.
The Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Telescope, or FAST, is the size of 20
Canadian
football fields and has been hewed out of a mountain in the poor southwestern
province of
Guizhou.
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Scientists will now start debugging and trials of the telescope, Zheng Xiaonian,
deputy head
of the National Astronomical Observation under the Chinese Academy of Sciences,
which
built the telescope, told the official Xinhua news agency.
"The project has the potential to search for more strange objects to better
understand the
origin of the universe and
boost the global hunt for extraterrestrial life," the report paraphrased Zheng as
saying.
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