China has created the world’s largest radio telescope – RBC

China has created the world’s largest radio telescope, called FAST (Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope). It is reported by CCTV.

The diameter of the device is 500 meters, it has a 4,450 thousand. Triangular reflectors. By design, it is similar to the Arecibo Observatory, where to set the design used natural depression.

of CRJ It adds, before radio telescope will begin to be used, it must pass rigorous testing.

«It the largest radio telescope in the world, and I myself, and many scientists around the world are really looking forward to the first observations, the opportunity to begin to explore the various objects in the universe … It will open the things that we’ve never seen before, “- said the head of Square project operator Kilometer Arra (SKA) Philip Diamond.

In China built a radio telescope with an area of ​​250 thousand. square meters of reflective surface

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The radio telescope – astronomical instrument for the reception of their own radio emission from celestial objects and research their characteristics.