# The world’s biggest radio telescope is finally open to international scientists

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/the-worlds-biggest-radio-telescope-is-finally-open-to-international-scientists/
- Published: 2021-04-24T09:00:14-05:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Photo: The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST). Photo credit: Jeff Dai / Stocktrek Images on Alamy. Article by Sarah Scoles / Undark. Popular Science – April 21, 2021. With the loss of Arecibo, collaboration with China becomes all the more important for space research. In the hills of China’s Guizhou province, a natural rock bowl cradles the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope. This instrument, called FAST—the Five-Hundred-Meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope—is, as its name suggests, 500 meters, or about 1,640 feet, across, a size that helps scientists detect more distant and fainter objects. And in late March, FAST began accepting scientific proposals from international astronomers for the first time. […] Click here to view original web page at www.popsci.com Curated by Theresa Wysocki See Full Bio