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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Five Hundred Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope
NASA ^ | 09/29/2016 | (see photo credits)

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
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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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TOPICS: Astronomy
KEYWORDS: nasa
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1 posted on 09/29/2016 5:41:29 AM PDT by ThomasMore
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To: .30Carbine; 1FreeAmerican; 21stCenturion; 21twelve; 2nd Amendment; 4everontheRight; ...
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2 posted on 09/29/2016 5:42:09 AM PDT by ThomasMore (We're edging closer and closer to a civil war! Blame the politicians!)
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To: ThomasMore

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3 posted on 09/29/2016 5:43:19 AM PDT by ETL (God PLEASE help America...Never Hillary!)
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To: ThomasMore

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4 posted on 09/29/2016 5:43:47 AM PDT by ETL (God PLEASE help America...Never Hillary!)
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To: ThomasMore

Whatever you do, don’t let them point it at the Sun!


5 posted on 09/29/2016 5:47:22 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: ThomasMore


6 posted on 09/29/2016 5:48:35 AM PDT by ETL (God PLEASE help America...Never Hillary!)
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To: ThomasMore
It's a giant wok!

-PJ

7 posted on 09/29/2016 5:51:11 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: ThomasMore

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8 posted on 09/29/2016 6:00:47 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: ETL

Movie all very technical. Possibly a feasible theory. Not an entertaining movie.


9 posted on 09/29/2016 6:04:40 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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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.


10 posted on 09/29/2016 6:13:12 AM PDT by ETL (God PLEASE help America...Never Hillary!)
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To: ThomasMore
Golden Eye
11 posted on 09/29/2016 6:25:18 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: wastoute
Whatever you do, don’t let them point it at the Sun!

It's a radio telescope. All you'd hear is....scccchhhhhhsssshhhxxxxzzzzzzzschhhhhh.

12 posted on 09/29/2016 6:36:32 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Don't question faith. Don't answer lies.)
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To: Vaquero
Not an entertaining movie.

The book was much better. As is the norm.

13 posted on 09/29/2016 6:37:09 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Don't question faith. Don't answer lies.)
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To: ThomasMore

Worlds biggest WOK!........................


14 posted on 09/29/2016 6:39:35 AM PDT by Red Badger (YES, I'm Deplorable! I Deplore the entire Democrat Party!....................)
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To: ETL

The book was great.
The movie sucked.....................


15 posted on 09/29/2016 6:40:04 AM PDT by Red Badger (YES, I'm Deplorable! I Deplore the entire Democrat Party!....................)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

The only thing they used from the book was the title................


16 posted on 09/29/2016 6:40:43 AM PDT by Red Badger (YES, I'm Deplorable! I Deplore the entire Democrat Party!....................)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Read the Three Body Problem, Dark Forrest, Death’s End Trilogy. It all starts with a Chinese Radiotelescope used to transmit to the sun...


17 posted on 09/29/2016 6:41:10 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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The movie sucked. It had nothing to do with the book, other than the title and basic outline of it...................


18 posted on 09/29/2016 6:41:54 AM PDT by Red Badger (YES, I'm Deplorable! I Deplore the entire Democrat Party!....................)
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To: ETL

That part wasn’t even part of the book.................


19 posted on 09/29/2016 6:43:04 AM PDT by Red Badger (YES, I'm Deplorable! I Deplore the entire Democrat Party!....................)
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To: Red Badger

It wasn’t that bad. Many other films of the type worse.


20 posted on 09/29/2016 6:45:13 AM PDT by ETL (God PLEASE help America...Never Hillary!)
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