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Astro Bob blog: China Builds Giant Telescope to Look for ET

China has just built one of the largest cosmic listening devices ever. Called the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope or FAST, the instrument's vast signal-gathering dish spans 1,640 feet (500 meters) across or more than 20 football f...

2661535+FAST full scope wideFEA.jpg — The Chinese recently completed construction of the gigantic FAST radio telescope. It's scheduled to begin operations in September looking for signals from extraterrestrial life as well as studying pulsars, gravity waves and other astronomical phenomena. Credit: fast.bao.ac.cn/en/

By Robert King

July 08, 2016 at 4:49 PM

China has just built one of the largest cosmic listening devices ever. Called the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope or FAST, the instrument's vast signal-gathering dish spans 1,640 feet (500 meters) across or more than 20 football fields placed end to end. Read post here .

By Robert King