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.
Located in…