The world’s largest radio telescope, which has been built in China, is beginning an intensive testing phase. “This is very exciting,” Prof Peng Bo, deputy project manager of the Five Hundred Metre Aperture Spherical Telescope (Fast), told the BBC. “For many years, we have had to go outside of China to make observations – and now we have the largest telescope. People can’t wait to use it.”The radio telescope, located in a vast natural crater in Guizhou Province in southwest China, has been an ambitious project for the National Astronomical Observatories of China. The telescope works by “listening” for radio waves emitted by objects in space.

Source: Dhaka Tribune September 26, 2016 07:52 UTC