World's largest telescope begins peering into space
By Hou liqiang and Yang Jun in Pingtang, Guizhou | China Daily | Updated: 2016-09-26 08:16
Dish as big as 30 soccer fields, in Guizhou, to push Chinese science to forefront
Scientists of the world, attention please: You are invited by China to listen for alien life from the world's largest telescope it built.
With the massive facility officially beginning to operate on Sunday, leading scientists told China Daily that foreign scientists will be welcome to use China's gigantic Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, known as FAST.
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