Telescope · China
FAST
Also known as Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, Tianyan
Observatories500 m aperture
Imagery
FastTelescope*8sep2015
Picture of the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) during its construction in Guizhou Province, China.
Psr1909 · CC BY-SA
Overview
FAST, the Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Telescope in China, is the world's largest single-dish radio telescope, used to study pulsars and fast radio bursts.
Observing bands
Knowledge connections
- StudiesThe Milky Way
- Operated byNational Astronomical Observatories, CAS
- ObservesRadio
Sources
The primary and reference sources this topic draws on.
- NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration
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