SunstarTV Bureau: The–Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) became the global centre for scientific research, after the slump of another telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, recently.
The world’s second-largest radio telescope, in Puerto Rico, was destroyed when its suspended 900-tonne receiver platform came loose and plunged 140 meters (450 feet) onto the radio dish below.
The Chinese installation in Ping tang, Guizhou province, is up to three times more sensitive than the US-owned one, and is surrounded by a five-kilometre (three-mile) ‘radio silence’ zone where mobile phones and computers are not allowed.
FAST began in 2011 and it started full operations in January this year, it is working mainly to capture the radio signals emitted by celestial bodies, in particular pulsars rapidly rotating dead stars.
