The world's biggest radio telescope has started working in south-western China, a project that will help humankind hunt down for Alien life, as indicated by Beijing.
Measuring 500 meters in Diameter, the radio telescope is situated in a natural bowl inside an amazing scenery of rich green karst arrangements in southern Guizhou territory. It took five years and $180 million to finish and outshine that of the 300-meter Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, a dish used as a part of research on stars.
The authority said that the Xinhua News Agency has astronomers and enthusiasts watched the lauch of the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, or FAST, in the area of Pingtang.
Specialists said FAST would searche for gravitational waves, distinguish radio emmissions from stars and Galaxies and listen for Symbils of outer space life.
"A ultimate objective of FAST is to find the laws of the advancement of the universe," Qian Lei, a partner scientist with the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, told state broadcaster CCTV.
"In theory, if there is development in space, the radio signal it sends will be like the signal we can get when a pulsar (turning neutron star) is drawing nearer us," Qian said.
The telescope requires a radio silence inside a 5-kilometer (3-mile) radius, following in the modification of more than 8,000 people from their homes in eight towns to clear a path for the ability, state media said.
CCTV reported that during a recent test, the telescope got radio signs from a pulsar that was 1,351 light-years from Earth.
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