Part of the worlds biggest mega-science facility the SKA Observatory is being built in outback Western Australia. After decades of planning, countless hours of work, and more than a few setbacks, an ...

The Simons Observatory (SO) has completed the installation of its Large Aperture Telescope (LAT) near the summit of Cerro ...

The Dobsonian telescope design was developed by John Dobson in the 1960s, and it quickly took the amateur astronomy world by storm because it made it affordable for people to own a large-aperture ...

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A recent study utilizing the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) has confirmed the "radio-quiet" ...

1c). In the nineteenth century, the emergence of diffraction theory enabled telescope builders to understand in more detail the benefits of larger-aperture telescopes — mainly higher sensitivity ...

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) was used to study the emission properties of three long-period pulsars: PSR J1945+1211, PSR J2323+1214, and PSR J1900−0134.

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Jiang Peng, NPC deputy and the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) project chief engineer After earning his PhD in 2009, Jiang Peng, now 47, joined the team behind the ...