China has opened the biggest radio telescope-‘FAST’ in the world up to international scientists.
- The ‘Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST)’ is standing in Pingtang, Guizhou province.
- With its massive 1,600-foot (500 meters) diameter dish, FAST is not only larger than the now-destroyed Arecibo telescope, but it’s also three times more sensitive.
- FAST use antennas and radio receivers to detect radio waves from radio sources in the cosmos, like stars, galaxies and black holes.
- The world’s second-largest radio telescope, at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico had collapsed recently.
(Source: Space.com)
