The country’s Xinhua news agency has said the telescope will be available for service worldwide from April this year. FAST, or the Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope, is the world’s largest single-dish radio observatory. It is already operational to scientists within China
Pierce Brosnan’s 007 scales the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico while fighting villain Alec Trevelyn, played by Sean Bean, in one of the film’s closing scenes. Alec, 006, falls to his death in the iconic scene. The 57-year-old radio telescope was one
For five decades, Arecibo was the largest single-aperture telescope in the world, used to study distant planets and find asteroids. The massive telescope on the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico – located at the Arecibo Observatory and deteriorating since August – collapsed
‘Game-changer’ telescope takes panoramic images of deep space at record speed and opens the way to new discoveries. A powerful new telescope in outback Australia has mapped vast areas of the universe in record-breaking time, revealing a million new galaxies and opening
And yet, questions remain about what these worlds are like and whether they could host life. Ariel, however, will not answer the latter question as it will focus its attention on worlds that appear least likely to host life as we know