China’s FAST telescope a beacon of ‘soft power’, Shaw laureate Shrinivas Kulkarni says


US-based astronomer Shrinivas Kulkarni is a “big fan” of the Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST).

The professor of astronomy and planetary sciences at California Institute of Technology (Caltech), who won this year’s Shaw Prize in Astronomy, described the world’s largest and most sensitive single-dish radio telescope in China’s southwest province of Guizhou as “a terrific facility” with a global presence.

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