China switches on its massive alien-seeking radio telescope
 

China switches on its massive alien-seeking radio telescope
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China has flipped the switch on its 500 metre (1,640 ft) wide radio telescope — the largest in the world — which is aimed at the heavens in search of extraterrestrial life.

On Sunday, officials cut the ribbon on the FAST (Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Telescope), located in a basin in the mountai**us Pingtang County in Guizhou, southwest China.

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The 1.2 billion yuan (US$180 million) FAST has 4,450 panels, and is the size of 30 football fields.

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