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Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope

Index Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), nicknamed Tianyan (天眼, lit. "Heavenly Eye" or "The Eye of Heaven") is a radio telescope located in the Dawodang depression (大窝凼洼地), a natural basin in Pingtang County, Guizhou Province, southwest China. [1]

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Active surface

An active surface is a surface of a radio telescope that is under active computer control of its shape.

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Amazing China

Amazing China (厉害了, 我的国) is a 2018 Chinese documentary film that displays China's achievements in science, technology, industry, and poverty reduction since Xi Jinping took power of General Secretary of the Communist Party of China in the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China held in 2012.

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Arecibo Observatory

The Arecibo Observatory is a radio telescope in the municipality of Arecibo, Puerto Rico.

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Breakthrough Listen

Breakthrough Listen is a science-based program to search for intelligent extraterrestrial communications in the Universe.

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Chinese space program

The space program of the People's Republic of China is directed by the China National Space Administration (CNSA).

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Deaths in September 2017

The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2017.

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Douglas Vakoch

Douglas Vakoch (born June 16, 1961) is an American search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) researcher, psychologist, and president of METI (Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence), a nonprofit research and educational organization devoted to transmitting intentional signals to extraterrestrial civilizations.

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Fast

Fast or FAST may refer to.

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Intensity mapping

In cosmology, intensity mapping is an observational technique for surveying the large-scale structure of the universe by using the integrated radio emission from unresolved gas clouds.

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KARST

In the early days of planning of the international Square Kilometre Array (SKA) during the 1990s, the Chinese delegation vied to host the SKA, proposing to build several large dishes in the natural limestone depressions (karst) that dimple its southwestern provinces, and called the proposal Kilometer-square Area Radio Synthesis Telescope (KARST).

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List of acronyms: F

(Main list of acronyms).

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List of astronomical observatories

This is a list of astronomical observatories ordered by name, along with initial dates of operation (where an accurate date is available) and location.

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List of megaprojects

This is a list of megaprojects.

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List of radio telescopes

This is a list of radio telescopes - over one hundred - that are or have been used for radio astronomy.

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Nan Rendong

Nan Rendong (19 February 1945–15 September 2017) was a Chinese astronomer of Manchu descent.

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Parabolic antenna

A parabolic antenna is an antenna that uses a parabolic reflector, a curved surface with the cross-sectional shape of a parabola, to direct the radio waves.

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Pingtang County

Pingtang County is a county in the Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture of Guizhou, in southwest China.

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Potential cultural impact of extraterrestrial contact

The cultural impact of extraterrestrial contact is the corpus of changes to terrestrial science, technology, religion, politics, and ecosystems resulting from contact with an extraterrestrial civilization.

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Qitai Radio Telescope

The Xingjiang Qitai 110m Radio Telescope (QTT) is a planned radio telescope to be built in Qitai County in Xinjiang, China.

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Radar astronomy

Radar astronomy is a technique of observing nearby astronomical objects by reflecting microwaves off target objects and analyzing the reflections.

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Radio telescope

A radio telescope is a specialized antenna and radio receiver used to receive radio waves from astronomical radio sources in the sky in radio astronomy.

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Science and technology in China

Science and technology have developed rapidly in China during the 1990s to 2010s.

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Yuri Milner

Yuri Borisovich (Bentsionovich) Milner (Ю́рий Бори́сович Бенцио́нович Ми́льнер; born 11 November 1961) is an Israeli-Russian entrepreneur, venture capitalist and physicist.

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2016 in science

A number of significant scientific events occurred in 2016.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_hundred_meter_Aperture_Spherical_Telescope

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