The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST), situated in a karst region in Guizhou, southwest China, has been operating since January 2020. But now a second phase will add 24 new ...

An curved arrow pointing right. China just finished building the world's largest radio telescope. The 500-Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, or FAST, will allow China to detect radio signals from ...

An curved arrow pointing right. China's 500-Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, or FAST, will be the world's biggest radio telescope when it is completed later this year. Its massive size and ...

The Chinese are ready to open up a new radio telescope called FAST (Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope). As the name implies, it is 500 meters in diameter which is about 1,600 ...

SHANGHAI, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- Two radio telescopes with 40-meter-diameter antennas, one located in northeast and the other in southwest China, were put into use on Friday. These telescopes will ...

Taylor expects FAST to be a "productive" project ... Yan Jun, head of the NAO, said China will roll out more "world-class" telescope projects in five to 10 years.

Chinese scientists are working to set up the world's largest refracting telescope in Tibet Autonomous Region for observing stars and planets. Deputy Director of the regional department of science and ...

[Photo/China Daily] Two radio telescopes with 40-meter-diameter antennas ... such as super-massive black holes, fast-changing compact celestial bodies, gravitational wave electromagnetic ...