In a karst depression in Pingtang, Guizhou province in southwest China located the world's largest single-dish telescope called FAST. China Sky Eye's impressive sensitivity to spot faint, polarized waves is expected to be improved.
Also known as Tianyan, or the Eye of Heaven, The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) is the world’s largest single-dish telescope, situated in a karst depression in Pingtang, Guizhou province in southwest China. Nearby settlements were relocated to reduce electromagnetic emissions which could interfere with the telescope’s sensitive operations. It appears to be a giant golf ball in the middle of China’s new Pingtang Astronomy Town.
FAST HAS BEEN in the making for a long time. In the early 2000s, China angled to host the Square Kilometre Array, a collection of coordinated radio antennas whose dishes would be scattered over thousands of miles. But in 2006, the international SKA committee dismissed China, and then chose to set up its distributed mondo-telescope in South Africa and Australia instead, as shows skyandtelescope.
