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Dubbed the “China Sky Eye,” the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) situated in southwest China’s Guizhou Province, has identified 509 new pulsars – four times the total amount of pulsars identified by other telescopes around the world, according to the Xinhua news agency.

Pulsars, or fast-spinning neutron stars, originate from the imploded cores of massive dying stars through supernova explosions.

FAST started formal operation in January 2020. It is believed to be the world’s most sensitive radio telescope. Among its tasks is the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

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Chinese researchers found the first evidence of three-dimensional spin-velocity alignment in a pulsar in May of this year.

Since the radio telescope officially opened, FAST has been available for scientists worldwide and received approximately 200 observation applications from 16 countries to utilize the facility.

FAST has also discovered weak fast radio bursts (FRBs) that are hard to locate using other telescopes, and collected the largest-ever samples of FRBs in the world.

Go to this GLOBALink video focused on FAST at: https://youtu.be/rYGpjyir6qw