China is
building the world’s largest radio telescope in Guizhou province, south west
China.
Construction
for the Five hundred metre Aperture Spherical Telescope, shortened to FAST,
started in March 2011. The project is now expect to be completed by September
2016.
The
gigantic radio telescope will cost approximately 1.2 billion Yuan (£120
million), making it the biggest astronomy project China has ever had.
Scientists told local residents
that the telescope can reach aliens in outer space. It will reach outside the solar
system
It will
allow scientists to get weaker radio signals from outer space, even further
than our solar system
Scientists
from different fields, including physicists, geologists and astronomers,
welcomed the construction of the new telescope as it will boost the human
capacity to observe outer space.
Chen
Xuelei, a physicists said that the data can help prove Einstein’s relativity
theory once more data of gravitational waves can be retrieved from the
telescope.
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