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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Five Hundred Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope
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| 09/29/2016
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Posted on 09/29/2016 5:41:29 AM PDT by ThomasMore
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
2016 September 29
Five Hundred Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope
Image Credit & Copyright: Jeff Dai (TWAN)
Explanation: The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) is nestled within a natural basin in China's remote and mountainous southwestern Guizhou province. Nicknamed Tianyan, or the Eye of Heaven, the new radio telescope is seen in this photograph taken near the start of its testing phase of operations on September 25. Designed with an active surface for pointing and focusing, its enormous dish antenna is constructed with 4,450 individual triangular-shaped panels. The 500 meter physical diameter of the dish makes FAST the largest filled, single dish radio telescope on planet Earth. FAST will explore the Universe at radio frequencies, detecting emission from hydrogen gas in the Milky Way and distant galaxies, finding faint galactic and extragalactic pulsars, and searching for potential radio signals from extraterrestrials.
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09/29/2016 5:42:09 AM PDT
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ThomasMore
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09/29/2016 5:43:19 AM PDT
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09/29/2016 5:43:47 AM PDT
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Whatever you do, don’t let them point it at the Sun!
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09/29/2016 5:47:22 AM PDT
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wastoute
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09/29/2016 5:48:35 AM PDT
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09/29/2016 5:51:11 AM PDT
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Political Junkie Too
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09/29/2016 6:00:47 AM PDT
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Vaquero
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Movie all very technical. Possibly a feasible theory. Not an entertaining movie.
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09/29/2016 6:04:40 AM PDT
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Vaquero
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I thought it was pretty good, although I didn’t care much for the Albino saboteur guy, nor the old news clips of Bill Clinton inserted as if he were addressing what was happening in the film. The Albino terrorist guy was supposed to be some sort of far-right religious fanatic. But what else should we expect from far-left Hollyweird, a Bill Ayers or “unabomber” type lefty terrorist? Not in a million years.
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09/29/2016 6:13:12 AM PDT
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09/29/2016 6:25:18 AM PDT
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Whatever you do, dont let them point it at the Sun! It's a radio telescope. All you'd hear is....scccchhhhhhsssshhhxxxxzzzzzzzschhhhhh.
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09/29/2016 6:36:32 AM PDT
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Bloody Sam Roberts
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Not an entertaining movie. The book was much better. As is the norm.
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09/29/2016 6:37:09 AM PDT
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Bloody Sam Roberts
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Worlds biggest WOK!........................
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09/29/2016 6:39:35 AM PDT
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Red Badger
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The book was great.
The movie sucked.....................
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09/29/2016 6:40:04 AM PDT
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Red Badger
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The only thing they used from the book was the title................
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09/29/2016 6:40:43 AM PDT
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Red Badger
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Read the Three Body Problem, Dark Forrest, Death’s End Trilogy. It all starts with a Chinese Radiotelescope used to transmit to the sun...
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09/29/2016 6:41:10 AM PDT
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wastoute
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The movie sucked. It had nothing to do with the book, other than the title and basic outline of it...................
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09/29/2016 6:41:54 AM PDT
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Red Badger
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That part wasn’t even part of the book.................
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09/29/2016 6:43:04 AM PDT
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Red Badger
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It wasn’t that bad. Many other films of the type worse.
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09/29/2016 6:45:13 AM PDT
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