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China
is building the world's largest radio telescope to detect signs of life billions of light years away.
About the size of 40 football fields, the 500-Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) is expected to be completed by September
2016.
The dish, located deep in the mountains of southwest China's Guizhou Province, will be the first of its kind for China, and will allow its military-run space program to gather its own
data. It will be the largest radio telescope in the world when it is completed.
The design will allow scientists to gather radio signals from tens of billions of light years away.
Work on the 1.2bn yuan (£127m) Fast (Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope) project began in the south-western province of Guizhou in 2011.
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