Now, Witness The Power Of This Fully Operational Radio Telescope!

Relax, its not a space station! And according to the Chinese government, it's for entirely peaceful purposes. It's known as the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST), a massive array that just finished construction in the southerwestern province of Guizhou, China. Equivalent in size to over 20 football fields joined end to end, it is the world's largest radio telescope - thus ending the Arecibo Observatory's 53 year reign. As part of China's growing commitment to space explorati...