SCI-TECH | China’s FAST telescope will be available to foreign scientists
FAST, the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope, will be available for global service from April 1.
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SPACE | Giant telescope picks up mysterious signals from deep space
Chinese astronomers have detected repeated fast radio bursts (FRB) – mysterious signals believed to be from a source about 3 billion light years from Earth – with the largest and most sensitive radio telescope ever built.
ASTRONOMY | Earth’s largest radio telescope to search for ‘new worlds’ outside solar system
The largest and most sensitive radio telescope ever built will search for extra-solar planets, or exoplanets, which have magnetic fields like Earth, within 100 light-years from Earth.
SPACE | World’s largest telescope more powerful, popular after two years
FAST, Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope, is the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope and was set up two years ago on this day in southwest China’s Guizhou Province.