China's giant 'eye' opens up to the world
21:37 UTC+8, 2021-04-01
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Nobel laureates among scientists welcoming the opening up of colossal radio telescope to researchers around the world to explore the universe and perhaps find alien civilizations.
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China’s five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope, the world’s largest filled-aperture and most sensitive radio telescope, officially opened to the world on Wednesday.
China’s colossal “Sky Eye” telescope is exciting the international scientific community.
The World Laureates Association said George Smoot III, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics, is one of those interested in making use of it.
FAST, short for Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope, is the world’s largest and most sensitive radio telescope. Commonly known as Tianyan, literally “Sky Eye,” it looks like a giant round eye inlaid in green hills in southwest China’s Guizhou Province.