BEIJING (Sputnik) — Photos published by CCTV channel show a huge plate of the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) hanging above the ground high in the mountains in Guizhou province. The construction takes up the space equal to 30 football fields. A total of 1.2 billion yuan have been invested in the project since 2011.
The telescope is connected to one of the fastest astronomy computers Sky Eye 1 and is expected to enhance China's capabilities space exploration.
