Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope

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Tachyon
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Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope

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I know where my next holiday destination will be in 2013!

http://www.bao.ac.cn/LT/
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Looks similar to the 350m Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.
I read somewhere that modern space based telescope can match the value output of such scopes because they can be pointed much longer at an object unlike these which are fixed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_Observatory
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WOW!!!!

I can't read it, but the pics look impressive!
Cheers, Ken :D

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