Xinhua Commentary: China's FAST not a Tower of Babel but a sky eye for all

BEIJING, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- Increasingly open to international cooperation, China is making its Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) platform available to the global scientific community.

The world's largest single-dish radio telescope, now one of a kind after the collapse of the 305 meter vast telescope at Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico last December, will see 10 percent of its observation time allocated to global astronomers in the year starting April 1.