{"id":20307,"date":"2024-10-02T06:45:09","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T01:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=20307"},"modified":"2025-04-06T00:28:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T18:58:29","slug":"fast-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/fast-telescope\/","title":{"rendered":"Five-Hundred Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Five-Hundred Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST):<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>radio telescope<\/strong> in <strong>China&#8217;s<\/strong> Guizhou Province.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is the <strong>world&#8217;s largest<\/strong> and <strong>most sensitive radio telescope<\/strong>, with a receiving area equivalent to 30 football fields.<\/li>\n<li>It measures 500 meters in diameter.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Scientific Goals:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Detect neutral hydrogen<\/strong> at the edge of the universe; reconstruct the images of the early universe;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Discover pulsars<\/strong>, establish a pulsar timing array, and participate in pulsar navigation and gravitational wave detection in the future;<\/li>\n<li>Join the International Very-Long-Baseline Interferometry Network to obtain hyperfine structures of celestial bodies;<\/li>\n<li>Perform <strong>high resolution radio spectral survey<\/strong>. Detect weak space signals;<\/li>\n<li>Participate in the <strong>search for extraterrestrial intelligence.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>FAST uses a data system developed at ICRAR (International Center for Radio Astronomy) in Perth, Australia, and at ESO (European Southern Observatory) to manage the huge amounts of data it generates.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: What is a radio telescope?<\/h3>\n<p>radio telescope, astronomical instrument consisting of a radio receiver and an antenna system that is used to detect radio-frequency radiation between wavelengths of about 10 metres (30 megahertz [MHz]) and 1 mm (300 gigahertz [GHz]) emitted by extraterrestrial sources, such as stars, galaxies, and quasars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five-Hundred Aperture Spherical Telescope is a radio telescope in China&#8217;s Guizhou Province. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":20308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20307","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}