China's FAST (Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope) can detect radio signals emitted tens of thousands of light-years away, and engineers have faced unprecedented challenges in constructing a giant radio receptor nestled amid mountains. From novel technological innovations to architectural challenges, we follow every step that gave birth to the biggest radio telescope ever constructed.
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A short documentary interviewing a renown astronomer and astrophysicist.
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Photo sequence of the rare transit of Venus over the face of the Sun, one of the first chronophotogr...
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Chaco Canyon, located in northwest New Mexico, is perhaps the only site in the world constructed in ...
Following engineers and scientists on a groundbreaking mission as they build, test and launch the Ja...