Applications discussed include DVDs and Blue - ray discs and large
aperture radio telescopes.
Not exact matches
«It is also noteworthy that China now has the world's largest
radio telescope,» Johnson - Freese says, referring to the Five - hundred - meter
Aperture Spherical
Telescope (FAST) that began operations in September.
«In the future, new, giant
radio telescopes like FAST (Five hundred meter
Aperture Spherical Telescope) and SKA (Square Kilometre Array) will allow us to make even more detailed observations of these extreme and exciting events,» concludes Jun Yang.
China's awesome Five - hundred - meter
Aperture Spherical
radio Telescope, the world's largest of its kind, will be able to peer further into the past than previous
radio telescopes to gather weaker and more distant signals that promise to provide clues to the origins and evolution of the universe, probe gravitational waves and dark matter, and listen for transmissions from extraterrestrial civilizations.
First developed by British
radio astronomers in 1946, arrays make use of several
radio telescopes spaced some distance apart, «synthesizing» a single
telescope with an
aperture equal to the spacing between the farthest elements.
But, when we compare the eyesight between an optical and a
radio telescope with the same size of
aperture, the vision of a
radio telescope is equivalent to only 1/10, 000 of an optical
telescope.
With the technique of very long baseline interferometry, astronomers can hook up
radio telescopes, distant from one another in different countries and on continents, to mimic a single «virtual»
telescope with an
aperture as wide as Earth.
(FAST, using the karst area of Guizhou karst area as a
telescope site, the construction of the world's largest single -
aperture radio telescope.Using FAST, the use of FAST, the use of FAST, Humans can observe pulsars, neutral hydrogen, black holes, etc..