China starts up world’s largest single-dish radio telescope
by Agence France-Presse from Technology | The Guardian on (#1VY5W)
Dish with reflector as large as 30 football pitches will listen for signs of intelligent life and is one of several 'world-class' projects
The world's largest radio telescope has begun operating in south-western China, a project Beijing says will help humanity search for alien life.
The five-hundred-metre aperture spherical radio telescope (acronym: Fast), nestled between hills in the mountainous region of Guizhou, began working about noon on Sunday, the official news agency, Xinhua, reported.
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