The world’s largest radio telescope began operating in southwestern China Sunday, a project which Beijing says will help humanity search for alien life. The Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), nestled between hills in the…
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Chile breaks ground on world’s largest telescope
Chile broke ground Wednesday on a massive telescope that is set to be the world’s largest and will allow astronomers to look back to the earliest moments after the Big Bang. The Giant Magellan Telescope,…
Star Safari: Traveling Telescope heads to Kenya’s Masai Mara
The telescope has been around for over 400 years, yet most people have never looked though one. What lies beyond the glittering curious lights in the evening sky is largely unknown to most of us,…