Aliens, Outer-Space Will Soon Be Investigated As China Launches The Largest Radio Telescope

Scientists from all over the world always have the curiosity on what is happening outer space. They have put a lot of time and effort investigating life in outer space. Currently, China built the world's largest radio telescope, to also see what is going on outside the earth and to see if they can discover Aliens.

The radio telescope from China measures 500 meters in diameter and it is twice as sensitive among all other radio telescopes. it is placed in a natural basin at southern Guizhou province with a gorgeous landscape of green karst formation. The telescope exceeded the 300-meter dish Nobel Prize winner, used to research the stars located at Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. Thus, the experts took 5 years to build the radio telescope in China and cost them 180 million dollars.

Hundreds of astronomers and enthusiast gathered to witness the launched of the radio telescope at the country of Pingtang. It is called Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, or FAST. Reporters from Xinhua News Agency said that FAST will detect radio emissions from galaxies and stars, search for gravitational waves, and even search for signs of extraterrestrial life.

Thus, FAST needs radio silence within 5-kilometres radius. In which 8,000 people from 8 villages needed to be relocated from their homes to give way to the facility. The state provided the villagers with cash or new homes with $269 million budget taken from the poverty relief fund and bank loans, as per the reports of Phys.Org.

Professor Peng Bo, project manager of FAST said that normally traditional telescope takes only two years to function fully. But, in the case of FAST, since it is so big, it will take approximately three years of testing before it can be open to the world, according to BBC News.

Professor Nan Rendong, mastermind of FAST shares that, "As soon as the telescope works normally, a committee will distribute observation time according to the scientific value of the proposals. Proposals from foreign scientists will be accepted and there will be foreign scientists on the allocation committee." He added that collaborating with the scientific community globally would be vital for this project.