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World's largest ever radio telescope to be completed in SW China

Source: Xinhua 2016-06-29 19:06:47
[Editor: Xiang Bo]

CHINA-GUIZHOU-FAST-CONSTRUCTION

PINGTANG, June 29, 2016 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on June 29, 2016 shows a cabin of the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, or "FAST," above a dish-like reflector in Pingtang County, southwest China's Guizhou Province. Once completed, the cabin, home to a feed source which collects signals from the universe, will be suspended 140 to 160 meters above the reflector made up of 4,450 panels. Now technicians have assembled 99.8 percent of the reflector's panels. The assembling work of the reflector will be completed on July 3. FAST, the world's largest ever radio telescope, will be used to detect and collect signals and data from the universe. (Xinhua/Liu Xu)

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[Editor: Xiang Bo]
 
World's largest ever radio telescope to be completed in SW China
                 Source: Xinhua | 2016-06-29 19:06:47 | Editor: Xiang Bo

CHINA-GUIZHOU-FAST-CONSTRUCTION

PINGTANG, June 29, 2016 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on June 29, 2016 shows a cabin of the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, or "FAST," above a dish-like reflector in Pingtang County, southwest China's Guizhou Province. Once completed, the cabin, home to a feed source which collects signals from the universe, will be suspended 140 to 160 meters above the reflector made up of 4,450 panels. Now technicians have assembled 99.8 percent of the reflector's panels. The assembling work of the reflector will be completed on July 3. FAST, the world's largest ever radio telescope, will be used to detect and collect signals and data from the universe. (Xinhua/Liu Xu)

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