Located 4,410 meters above sea level, LHAASO is one of China's key national science and technology facilities. (ECNS)
Aerial view of detectors in China's Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) project in Daocheng County, southwest China's Sichuan Province, July 31, 2024. (Photo: China News Service/Liu Zhongjun)
Aerial view of detectors in China's Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) project in Daocheng County, southwest China's Sichuan Province, July 31, 2024. (Photo: China News Service/Liu Zhongjun)
Aerial view of detectors in China's Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) project in Daocheng County, southwest China's Sichuan Province, July 31, 2024. (Photo: China News Service/Liu Zhongjun)
Aerial view of detectors in China's Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) project in Daocheng County, southwest China's Sichuan Province, July 31, 2024. (Photo: China News Service/Liu Zhongjun)
Aerial view of detectors in China's Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) project in Daocheng County, southwest China's Sichuan Province, July 31, 2024. (Photo: China News Service/Liu Zhongjun)
Aerial view of detectors in China's Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) project in Daocheng County, southwest China's Sichuan Province, July 31, 2024. (Photo: China News Service/Liu Zhongjun)
The National Development and Reform Commission, China’s top economic planning body, approved the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) project on December 31, 2015. The LHAASO project is designed to explore physics goals in gamma ray astronomy and cosmic ray physics.
Set high on a mountain plain in China, Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) will offer a unique perspective on the origins of cosmic rays, high-energy particles that rain down on Earth. Construction has started on the project, which will probe, for the first time, ultra-high-energy γ-rays — bursts of radiation thought to be produced alongside cosmic rays in our Galaxy, but whose origins are easier to track.
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