After the historic fall Arecibo Observatory In Puerto Rico, China has opened the world’s largest radio telescope to international scientists.
In Pingtang, there is Guizhou Province Five-hundred-meter er perpendicular circular telescope (Fast), the world’s largest radio telescope, surpassing the Arecibo Observatory, became the largest in the world for 53 years before Fast was completed in 2016. After two cable failures earlier this year, Arecibo’s radio telescope The fall occurred in November, Closing the observatory for good. Now, Fast is opening its doors to astronomers around the world.
“Our scientific committee aims to make FAST more and more open to the international community,” Wang Kimming, chief inspector of the FFST’s operations and development center, told AFP during a visit to the telescope. According to the French news site AFP.
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According to the report, China will accept the requests of foreign scientists this coming year (2021) to use this research tool.
With its huge 1,600-foot (500-meter) diameter dish, the Fast is not only larger than the destroyed Arecibo Telescope, but it is also three times more sensitive. Fast, which began full operation in January this year, is also surrounded by a 3-mile (5-kilometer) “Radio Silence” zone, which does not allow cellphones and computers.
“We took a lot of inspiration from that [Arecibo’s] “We slowly made improvements to make our binoculars,” Kilming said.
Fast like radio telescopes use to find antennas and radio receivers Radio waves From radio sources in the cosmos, like stars, galaxies and black holes. These instruments can be used to send radio signals and also to reflect radio light from solar system objects (like planets) to see what information can bounce back.
Researchers can use Fast not only to explore the universe To study alien worlds, They “determine whether to rest in”Goldilocks X Zone“Their host is close to the star, and also explores alien life.
Popularly known as Arecibo in 1974, the scientists discovered the intelligence of the outside world, or SETI, Sent intercellular radio message Globular cluster M13 in the hope of gaining confirmation of intelligent outside world life. The message was co-authored by astronomer and science communicator Carl Sagan, helping to popularize Arecibo and radio astronomy in general.
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