China building world's biggest radio telescope

Since its completion in 1963, the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, with a diameter of 305 m (1000 ft) and an area collection of 73,000 square meters (790,000 square feet), was the largest radio telescope ever built single opening. But Arecibo is about to lose his title for the construction is underway in the province of Guizhou in southern China's first quarter mile spherical telescope (FAST). After its completion in 2016, FAST covers an area of over 195,000 square meters (2,100,000 square feet) and will be able to see more than three times farther into space and study the sky ten times faster than that of Arecibo. .. Continue reading China's largest telescope building in the world radio

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