Spherical Radio Telescope - China
An aerial drone photo taken on September 25, 2024 shows China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) under maintenance in southwest China's Guizhou Province. Wednesday marks the eighth anniversary of the launch of China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST). On the same day, the construction of the Core Array of FAST started, highlighting China's growing potential in global radio astronomy research. As a proposed extension of FAST, the world's largest single-dish radio telescope, the Core Array integrates 24 secondary 40-meter antennas implanted within 5 kilometers of the FAST site. 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. Photo by Xinhua/Liu Xu/ABACAPRESS.COM
- Product Code
- ILEA003361342
- Registered date
- 2024/9/25 00:00:00
- Credit
- Abaca Press / Kyodo News Images
- Media source
- Xinhua/ABACA
- Media size
- 5000 × 3573 pixel
- Deployment size
- 2.99(MB)*
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