The 500-Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) is being built in China. With a dish the size of 30 football fields, it will be the largest radio telescope in the world when it is completed in 2016.

An curved arrow pointing right. China's 500-Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, or FAST, will be the world's biggest radio telescope when it is completed later this year. Its massive size and ...

Jiang Peng, NPC deputy and the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) project chief engineer After earning his PhD in 2009, Jiang Peng, now 47, joined the team behind the ...