Great China Colossal radio telescope presents a sea of opportunities. With the world still reveling on the Kepler-452b, China is quietly going about its quest to make a radio telescope that reports have suggested could be the largest globally. As this is complete, this radio telescope performs both the duties of finding out an alien existence in the universe and discovering the roots of our universe.
The Hunt For The Aliens Begins by Great China’s Colossal Telescope
As per WU Xiangping, the Chinese Astronomical Society’s Director-General, this telescope is believed to be about half kilometers wide and can attain weaker radio messages from distant parts of the universe.
Short Description Of The Telescope
This telescope is a bowl-shaped beast named the Five Hundred Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope or FAST. It will be able to measure 1640 feet in diameter and would be able to peer deep into the universe. As per the io9 description of the device- it is stacked with 4450 panels. Each panel is like a triangle measuring about 11 meters. That will be three times more than the 300 meter Arecibo.
The people involved are pretty excited about this. We cannot simply rule out the possibility of contact with Extra-Terrestrial. The Great China Telescope on the lookout for human existence could be our new hope at finding another terrestrial planet.
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