China’s Largest Spherical Telescope Enters Last Stage of Construction

The construction of China’s largest single-aperture spherical telescope “FAST,“ located in the mountains of Guizhou Province in southwest China, has entered its final stage. The assembly of the reflectors on the telescope, with a dish the size of 30 football fields, is 56 percent finished and is expected to be completed by April this year. The telescope’s dish is 500 meters in diameter and made up of 4,450 reflectors. When the construction is fully completed in September, the 500-meter aperture spherica