China is also building an observation deck on a nearby mountain for tourists keen on visiting the telescope. Builders installed the last of the 4,450 panels onto the world’s largest radio telescope, completing China’s ambitious new tool for space exploration on Sunday. State media also said it will be able to carry out observation in other cities such as Beijing, some 2,000 kilometres from the telescope site. The telescope will become operational in September, and following a few years of debugging, will be open to scientists around the world. Cut into the side of a mountain Pingtang County, Guizhou Province, the Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) cost roughly $230 million to build, according to state media.

Source: National Post July 05, 2016 15:53 UTC