China September 25 will start the work in the world's largest radio telescope FAST

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BEIJING, Sept. 24 -. RIA Novosti, Ivan Bulatov China plans on Sunday 25 September to include the world's largest radio telescope of the FAST, wrote in a Saturday newspaper South China Morning the Post .

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China has relocated 8,000 people for the opening of the largest radio telescope

Construction of the telescope, an area equal to the area of ​​30 football fields, began in March 2011. Telescope located high in the mountains of Guizhou Province in southwest China. The diameter of the telescope is 500 meters.The perimeter of the structure is equal to 1.6 kilometers. Total investment in the project is estimated at 1.2 billion yuan (about 180 million dollars). It will surpass the largest at this point the telescope in Puerto Rico, with a diameter of 300 meters.

"It will be a very good telescope to explore some areas of astronomy, especially for the study of pulsars and galaxies in the universe of accommodation", - he said on this occasion a professor of astronomy at Cornell University (USA) Donald Campbell.According to him, the new telescope will allow to make a significant contribution to the understanding of the structure and history of the universe.

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Chinese space laboratory "Tiangong-2" to the test in orbit

Last Sunday was completed installation of 30-ton telescope feed. It is located at an altitude of 130 meters above the surface of the telescope. The irradiator is used to collect radio waves, which it aims to dish reflector telescope, and also amplifies the signal, allowing it to record the measuring instruments.

China Central Television reported earlier, the FAST will be connected to one of the fastest computers in the world Sky Eye 1 for astronomical calculations to search for life on other planets and study dark matter. It is expected that the new telescope will greatly enhance China's ability to study outer space.

Earlier, Chinese authorities moved 9,000 people living in a radius of five kilometers from the radio telescope. They were built 600 houses in two new settlements, which are located approximately ten kilometers from their former place of residence. The construction of new housing authorities have spent about 269 million dollars.