World's Most Sensitive Radio Telescope Concludes 15-month Listening Session,Accepting International Proposals

摘要

Nestled in the mountainous landscape of Guizhou in southwest China,the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) is a single-dish radio telescope the size of 30 soccer fields.It has recently finished 15 months of listening to the sounds of the Universe.Data collected during this inaugural listening session and the pre-launch testing period has already resulted in more than 60 peer-reviewed publications.