Staring into the cosmos: FAST's decade of discovery from SW China's mountains
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Staring into the cosmos: FAST's decade of discovery from SW China's mountains
Nestled in a natural karst depression in Pingtang County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope – known to the world as FAST, or "China Sky Eye" – marks its 10th anniversary in 2026. As large as
Last Friday was exactly ten years since the completion of FAST (Five-hundred-meter Aperture Sphiric Telescope), an unbelievable one-serial radio telescope of the planet that settled in the painting mountains of Guizhou Province in southern China, which was followed by a well-established poetic nickname called "The Heavens Eye of China." In an exclusive interview with Jiang Peng, who is the deputy director of the National Astronomical Observatory…
The FAST radio telescope, which celebrates its decade, has since brought China ' s radio Astronomy to a historically new level, with enhanced observation capabilities, a radio telescope located in Guizhou province in south-west China has continuously expanded human understanding of the universe.
China's FAST telescope has recorded more than 1300 pulsars since it went into service in 2016, Xinhua reported. The world's largest radio telescope has made more pulsar observations in the last 10 years that it has been active than any other telescope.
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