Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), or the "China Sky Eye," a team of Chinese astronomers have built the largest-ever high-quality catalog of extragalactic neutral hydrogen (HI) and published their groundbreaking achievements in the journal "Science China: Physics, Mechanics and Astronomy." (CGTN)
After more than five years of construction, the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope is finally getting ready to open its eye. On July 3, 2016, with the installation of the last of its 4,450 reflecting panels – equivalent to the size of 30 soccer fields – the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) is counting down to seeing its first light in two to three months’ time.
A data processing center for China's giant space telescope -- the Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) -- is to be built near the telescope. China National Astronomical Observatories under the Chinese Academy of Sciences signed an agreement Wednesday with the government of Gui'an New District in southwest China's Guizhou Province on the data center project.
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