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FAST radio telescope

500 m

Largest single-dish radio telescope

Confirmed Telescopes and observatories · Verified 2026-10-29 · WWV-UN-010

China's Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Telescope sits in a natural valley in Guizhou province. It began observations in 2016 and has since found hundreds of new pulsars.

It is the largest single-dish instrument. Arrays of many dishes can be larger when combined.

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