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China has started assembling the world’s largest radio telescope as it looks to improve its ability to explore outer space
China has started assembling the world’s largest radio telescope as it looks to improve its ability to explore outer space.
The five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope, or FAST, rests in a bowl-shaped valley in the southwestern province of Guizhou.
The telescope will have a dish the size of 30 soccer fields when it’s completed. Meng Qingsheng reports.
