By July this year, scientists had identified over 660 new pulsars, using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), known as the "China Sky Eye." The world's largest single-dish radio telescope has greatly expanded the limits of our view of the universe. Click on to the video and and see a bird’s view of the "China Sky Eye."
Technicians have begun assembling the world's largest radio telescope, with a dish the size of 30 football grounds, deep in the mountains of southwest China's Guizhou Province. Yesterday afternoon, they began to assemble the telescope's reflector, which is 500 meters in diameter and made up of 4,450 panels. Each panel is an equilateral triangle with sides 11 meters long.
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