Five-Hundred Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST)

About Five-Hundred Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST):

• It is a radio telescope in China's Guizhou Province. 
• It is the world's largest and most sensitive radio telescope, with a receiving area equivalent to 30 football fields.
• It measures 500 meters in diameter.
• Scientific Goals:

• Detect neutral hydrogen at the edge of the universe; reconstruct the images of the early universe;
• Discover pulsars, establish a pulsar timing array, and participate in pulsar navigation and gravitational wave detection in the future;
• Join the International Very-Long-Baseline Interferometry Network to obtain hyperfine structures of celestial bodies;
• Perform high-resolution radio spectral survey;
• Detect weak space signals;
• Participate in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

• FAST uses a data system developed at ICRAR (International Center for Radio Astronomy) in Perth, Australia, and at ESO (European Southern Observatory) to manage the huge amounts of data it generates.