500m Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope Construction - China

500m Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope Construction - China

An aerial drone photo taken on September 25, 2024 shows the first test prototype of the Core Array of China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) being installed in southwest China's Guizhou Province. The construction of the Core Array of China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) started Wednesday, highlighting China's growing potential in global radio astronomy research. As a proposed extension of FAST, the Core Array integrates 24 secondary 40-meter antennas implanted within 5 kilometers of the FAST site, said Jiang Peng, deputy director of the National Astronomical Observatories under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The Chinese-designed array will combine the unprecedented sensitivity of FAST with a high angular resolution, thereby exceeding the capabilities at similar frequencies of next-generation arrays in the world. The FAST Core Array is estimated to be completed and put into operation in 2027. (Photo by Liu Xu/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

  • Product Code
  • ILEA003357018
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  • 2024/9/25 00:00:00
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  • Abaca Press / Kyodo News Images
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  • Xinhua/ABACA
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  • 5000 × 3744 pixel
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  • 72 dpi
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