September 26, 2016
Cosmos
Curated content from the editorial staff at Cosmos Magazine.
Andreas Wicenec / ICRAR
FAST, or the Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Telescope, is so large it had to be built into a valley in Guizhou province in south-west China.
It will let astronomers map hydrogen gas in the Milky Way galaxy, hunt for rotating neutron stars known as pulsars and look for signals of extraterrestrial intelligence.
