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Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope

Ground-Based Radio and Millimeter Observatories

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A Chinese radio telescope built into a natural karst depression in Guizhou province, completed in 2016 with a 500-meter dish that makes it the largest filled-aperture radio telescope in the world, surpassing the former record held by Arecibo. It has been used to discover large numbers of new pulsars and to search for fast radio bursts and technosignatures.

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