Observatory
FAST (Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope)
The world's largest single-dish radio telescope, a 500-metre aperture instrument in Guizhou, China.
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- Type: Observatory
- Domain: Scientific connections
Experience system V6
Observatory scientific profile
A graph-grounded scientific layout that adapts to available evidence, imagery, relations, and source coverage.
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Observe
WIKIMEDIA imagery anchors the visual reading with licensed source metadata.
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Measure
Measurement panels use graph coverage, catalog identifiers, and source availability without inventing values.
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Locate
Studies The Milky Way.
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Connect
3 graph relations shape the knowledge viewport.
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- Observatory
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- Verified sources
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- Graph entity
Scientific map
Ground context
- Studies
The Milky Way
- Operated by
National Astronomical Observatories, CAS
- Observes
Radio
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Observation system
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- Observatory
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Visual knowledge graph
Relationships, not isolated facts
This viewport is generated from the Asteria knowledge graph. Science, culture, and interpretive links remain separated by domain so visual context never changes the evidentiary meaning of a relation.
- Operated byNational Astronomical Observatories, CAS
- ObservesRadio
- StudiesThe Milky Way
Image provenance
Photography as evidence
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Observation
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Data
Scientific data & provenance
Data & provenance
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observatory:fast- Type
- Observatory
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- Graph version
- 1.0.0
Dataset membership
Open data
In the graph export: graph.json · graph.jsonld
Planned API: GET /api/v0/entities/observatory:fast
Scientific quality
Partial3 of 6 applicable dimensions complete, 1 partial
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- Complete
- Source coverage
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- Relationship coverage
- Complete
- Review coverage
- None
- Citation coverage
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- Image coverage
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- Timeline coverage
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Scientific entity. Dimensions that cannot apply to this object are excluded rather than counted as gaps. See the evidence framework and authority dashboard.
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- NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration
Mission data, planetary science, space telescopes, and public-domain imagery.
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