8 years ago
1
China puts final touches to world's largest telescope
China has put the final piece of what is set to be the world's largest radio telescope in place, state media have reported. The "Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Telescope", or FAST, is the size of 30 football fields and has been hewn out of a mountain in the southwestern province of Guizhou. "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," Zheng Xiaonian, deputy head of the National Astronomical...
Continue Reading
http://www.aljazeera.com
Join the Discussion
500 meters is around 1500 feet, while 30 football fields is 3,000 feet. I hope their astronomical calculations are a little more precise that their analogies. That said, cool. I hope they find some interesting stuff.