{"id":630060,"date":"2019-09-09T12:25:13","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T16:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=630060"},"modified":"2019-09-09T12:25:13","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T16:25:13","slug":"china-sky-eye-the-worlds-largest-single-dish-radio-telescope-is-now-fully-operational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=630060","title":{"rendered":"China Sky Eye, the world&#039;s largest single-dish radio telescope, is now fully operational"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope, known as FAST, is the world&#8217;s most sensitive listening device. The single-dish radio telescope is made of 4,450 individual panels that scan the sky, detecting the universe&#8217;s whispers and shouts. It&#8217;s cradled in a natural Earth depression the size of 30 soccer fields. It has more than twice the collecting area of the world&#8217;s previous largest radio telescope, the 305-meter dish in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. With construction completed in 2016, FAST has undergone rigorous testing and has one more hurdle before it&#8217;s considered fully operational.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-09-china-sky-eye-world-largest.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">China Sky Eye, the world&#8217;s largest single-dish radio telescope, is now fully operational<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope, known as FAST, is the world&#8217;s most sensitive listening device. The single-dish radio telescope is made of 4,450 individual panels that scan the sky,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-630060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=630060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=630060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=630060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=630060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}