The world’s largest radio telescope, FAST (Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope), also known as the Eye of Heaven, was completed in September 2016 in Guizhou Province, China. The new project will be completed in the second quarter of 2012.
The newest discovery was made by a team of scientists who discovered 201 new pulsars.
The newest and most recent addition to the list is the “China Sky Eye”, which is the world’s largest filled-aperture radio telescope, with an area equivalent to 30 soccer fields, and was opened to the world on April 1 this year. It is worth noting that British physicist Stephen Hawking had earlier publicly opposed the “Eye in the Sky” project, arguing that the huge equipment would easily allow aliens to discover the Earth and thus bring “irresistible catastrophe.
However, according to a team led by Han Jinlin, a researcher at the National Astronomical Observatory of China, the team has observed 201 new pulsars with the FAST telescope and published its latest results in the international journal of astronomy, Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics (RAA). In addition, the research team also mentioned that about 1,000 more new pulsars are expected to be discovered by this observing operation in the future, “expecting to discover special types of pulsars of high scientific value.”
Jinlin Han noted that several of the pulsars discovered this time, which are quite far away, “seem to be outside the Milky Way, and are actually influenced by the galactic spiral arms, so these pulsars may have important implications for our understanding of the electron distribution in the Milky Way.” In addition, Han also mentioned that this large-scale release has a very complete range of pulsars, some of which will be excellent tools for celestial radiation and gravitational theory, and will be important for advancing research in the field.
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