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China is opening up its FAST telescope to foreign scientists looking for alien life

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On January 4, 2021, China announced via its National Astronomical Observatories (NAO), that it would be opening up its Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) to scientists from abroad beginning April 1, 2021.

Nicknamed “Sky Eye”, FAST is the largest single-dish radio telescope in the world with a fixed 500m (640ft) diameter dish, and is now also the world’s only giant telescope following the collapse of the Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico at the end of 2020.

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