The world’s largest radio telescope, based in southwest China’s Guizhou Province, will be completed in April.
The five hundred meter aperture spherical telescope (FAST) will overtake Puerto Rico’s Arecibo Observatory, which is 300 meters in diameter.
Its space exploration will be supported by supercomputer Skyeye-1, capable of a quadrillion computing operations per second (a quadrillion is a thousand raised to the power of five). This means it is able to “see” a radio signal coming as far as tens of billions of light years away, which will extend China’s space tracking scope from the moon’s orbit to the outside edge of the solar system.