Largest radio telescope began operations help humanity search for alien life. It will explore space and search for signs of intelligent life.
The world’s largest radio telescope begun its operations in southwestern China.
A project which Beijing says will help humanity search for alien life.
The mega space telescope began working around noon.
The official Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday, adding that it will explore space and search for signs of intelligent life.
Largest radio telescope began operations help humanity search for alien life.
The $185 million telescope comprises nearly 4,500 panels.
China is joining the search for extraterrestrial life with construction of the world’s biggest and most sensitive radio telescope.
The final piece of the 500-m Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope, or FAST, fitted, the BBC reports, and operations slated to begin in September.
The radio telescope designed to “search for intelligent life from outer space,” according to China’s state broadcaster CCTV.
The $185 million device, which constructed into a natural karst depression in southwest China’s Guizhou province.
To protect it from electromagnetic disruption, has a 1.6-km circumference and comprises nearly 4,500 panels.
After debugging, it will used to detect for pulsars over 1,000 light-years deep into the universe.
Understanding the fundamental physics of pulsars will help us understand the Big Bang,” Yue Youling, associate researcher of National Astronomical Observatories, told CCTV.
What happened after the Big Bang everything before that relies on our calculation.
Therefore, there a lot of uncertainties.”
China is investing heavily to become a global player in science and technology, and the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is well aware of the propaganda mileage to be made.
Largest radio telescope began operations help humanity search for alien life.
In late May, President Xi Jinping called for China become a “world leader” in science by the centenary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 2049.
“Great scientific and technological capacity is a must for China to be strong,” Xi told a conference in Beijing.
On Wednesday, the People’s Daily newspaper — the CCP’s mouthpiece — listed the FAST telescope among eight Chinese achievements.
That were supposedly “shocking the world.” Others include satellites, bridges and a supercomputer.
