IT IS OVER! CHINESE ARE NOW THE STRONGEST IN THIS: China launched the largest radio telescope in the world

China launched the largest telescope in the world, whose surface is as much as 30 football fields, and will investigate whether there is intelligent life outside our planetThis project, together with the recent launch of other Chinese space station, shows the growth of China's ambitions in space exploration and gaining a reputation in the international scientific plan, said AP.

The official Chinese news agency Xinhua reported that hundreds of astronomers and astrophysicists attended the launch of the radiotelescope that the scientific community is called an abbreviation FAST - spherical radio telescope diameter of five hundred meters (Five-hundred-meter Apertre Spherical radio Telescope).Investigators noted that FAST search for gravity waves, billežiti radio emissions from stars and galaxies out and listen to the signs of intelligent extraterrestrial life.

The telescope with a diameter of 500 meters is located in a rural area of the southern province of Guidžu between three mountains that allow natural support.Its construction took five years and cost $ 180 million. He is greater than the Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico, with a diameter of 300 meters.Building construction of 4,450 panels, called "Tijanjan", or "Around the sky", began in 2011 and was completed in July.

China has also completed the construction of tourist access, such as cable TV for viewing on a nearby mountain.China allocates billions of dollars on space exploration and conquest of the universe, which is considered a symbol of the new power of the country. NASA will not have much space to lie, given that no one has ever publicly confirmed their findings.

• 25 Sep, 2016
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