Where is the world’s largest telescope being built?

China is getting ready to assemble the world’s largest Radio Telescope – The Five-Hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio telescope (FAST).

The telescope is being constructed in a naturally formed valley shaped like a bowl that will be big enough to hold the 1600 feet brute of a radio telescope. The telescope’s reflector is made up of 4450 panels. Every panel is shaped like an equilateral triangle with the side length of 11 meters.

This will make China the proud owner of the World’s largest telescope when completed. To be completed in 2016. FAST is a gigantic dish will be placed in a natural crater-LIKE Depression.

According to Amusing planet, the telescope located in a ‘radio silent’ zone will be three times more sensitive than the Arecibo observatory in Puerto Rico.