17th Feb, 2016
Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST)
It is a radio telescope under construction located in a natural basin, in Pingtang County, Guizhou Province, Southwest China.
Construction on the FAST project began in 2011 and is scheduled for completion by September 2016.
The telescope will be able to observe sources within 40 degrees.
FAST is expected to map the neutral hydrogen gas in the Milky Way Galaxy at a very high resolution and to increase the number of known pulsars from almost 2,000 to about 6,000.
It may be able to detect radio emissions from extra solar planets that are similar to Jupiter, and it also should be able to search for signals from extraterrestrial intelligence around many more stars than in previous surveys.
It will be operated by the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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