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China Starts Construction of World Largest Steerable Radio Telescope in Western Xinjiang Region

 China is building a huge new telescope to guide its space explorations.

        

China Starts Construction of World Largest Steerable Radio Telescope in Western Xinjiang Region

Constructions of the Qitai radio telescope (QTT) began in Xinjiang on September 21.


When completed it will be world largest steerable radio telescope .

110 The diameter of the telescope dish which can point in any direction over the northern hemisphere .


Chinese astronomers say the new piece of glass will help address a range of questions from how stars form to the detection of gravitational waves ,black holes and dark matter .


The QTT dish will be 10% bigger than the world 1st fully -steerable telescope in the U.S led by Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory the project will take about six years  to finish .


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