China’s giant alien-hunting telescope receives 100 ‘mysterious signals’
Tianyan, the 500-metre telescope, reportedly picked up over 100 radio signals coming from a source three billion light years away.Credit: AP:Associated Press
FRBs continue to baffle experts but most believe they come from high-energy processes out in the universe and not aliens.Tianyan, also known as FAST or the Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope, is the largest and most sensitive radio telescope every conducted.The giant satellite dish is located in Guizhou in the southwest of China and is the size of 30 football pitches.
Chinese and US scientists have been working together on the project to try and understand what's out there in deep space. Unlocking the secrets of what causes them will give us a much better understanding of what goes on beyond our galaxy
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