World's largest radio telescope to start assemble
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E-mail Xinhua, July 30, 2015
The assembly of the world's largest radio telescope is now underway in the southern Chinese province of Guizhou.
![Photo taken on July 27, 2015 shows the assembly site of the five hundred meter aperture spherical telescope 'FAST' in Pingtang county of southwest China's Guizhou province. Once completed, it's going to be the world's largest radio telescope. [Photo: Xinhua]](http://images.china.cn/attachement/jpg/site1007/20150730/7427ea210acc1723bd5707.jpg "Photo taken on July 27, 2015 shows the assembly site of the five hundred meter aperture spherical telescope 'FAST' in Pingtang county of southwest China's Guizhou province. Once completed, it's going to be the world's largest radio telescope. [Photo: Xinhua]") |
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Photo taken on July 27, 2015 shows the assembly site of the five hundred meter aperture spherical telescope "FAST" in Pingtang county of southwest China's Guizhou province. Once completed, it's going to be the world's largest radio telescope. [Photo: Xinhua] |
Nearly 45-hundred reflector panels are being put together to form the dish.
Once completed, it's going have a diameter of around 500-meters.
This will be much larger than the current largest in the world, which is an American observatory in Puerto Rico.
Professor Xu Renxin with Peking University says the massive telescope in Guizhou will be able to detect radio transmissions from the edge of our known universe when completed.
"The electromagnetic spectrum is much wider than the range human beings can observe. The telescope will be able to capture what we can't see in the optical region or the X-ray wave band."
A super-computer, which can do quadrillions of computing operations per second, is going to translate the data the telescope captures.
The original construction for the telescope began in 2011.
It's located in a natural, bowl-shaped valley in the southern part of Guizhou.
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