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China to connect world's largest telescope to Supercomputer
July 28, 2015
China
will press its Supercomputer Skyeye-1, capable of a quadrillion computing
operations per second, to support space exploration by the world's largest radio telescope being built in its Guizhou Province.
Assembly of the telescope, with a dish the size of 30 football
fields and located deep in the mountains of Guizhou, has got underway, official media
reported.
When it is completed in 2016, the 500-metre aperture spherical
telescope will be the world's largest, overtaking Puerto
Rico's Arecibo Observatory, which is only 300 metres in diameter, state-run Xinhua news agency
reported.
A radio signal as far as tens of billions of light years away
could possibly be caught by the telescope, which will extend China's space
tracking scope from moon's orbit to the outside edge of the solar system upon
its completion next year.
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