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No aliens found yet, but 'heartbeats' in universe heard

By Yu Fei, Li Mengxin and Qi Jian | China Daily | Updated: 2017-12-23 08:58

The world's largest radio telescope is located deep in Southwest China's Guizhou province

One is rapid and strong, and the other is slow and weak, like the heartbeats of a youth and an old man passing through a distance of thousands of light years, and then heard by the most sensitive "ear" on Earth.

The "ear" is the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST), the world's largest radio telescope, with a dish as large as 30 football fields. It is located in a valley deep in Southwest China's mountainous Guizhou province.

No aliens found yet, but 'heartbeats' in universe heard

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