The Chinese are ready to open up a new radio telescope called FAST (Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope). As the name implies, it is 500 meters in diameter which is about 1,600 ...
A 40-meter-diameter radio telescope is put into use on Friday in Shigatse, Xizang autonomous region. Built by the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory under the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...
The two telescopes were built by the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Changbai Mountain area in Northeast China's Jilin province and in Shigatse ...
Professor Wu Xuebing, director of the department of astronomy in the school of physics at Peking University, said most Chinese telescopes were designed to detect centimetre waves, but the ...
As US astronomers cheer the completion of the state-of-the-art project to rejuvenate the iconic Hale Telescope, one key collaborator is locked out of the celebrations and banned from exporting to ...
An curved arrow pointing right. 2,029 families and 9,110 people are being moved to install FAST: the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope. The telescope is being installed in Guizhou ...
The Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST), which is under construction, is expected to achieve significant results on fundamental cosmological issues such as the nature of dark energy and dark matter ...