Five Hundred Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST)
The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, nicknamed Tianyan, is a radio telescope located in the Dawodang depression, a natural basin in Pingtang County, Guizhou, southwestern China.
- Type: Building
- Description: radio telescope located in Pingtang County, Guizhou Province, China
- Also known as: “Eye of Heaven”, “FAST”, “FAST:500m”, “Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope”, “Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope”, “Heavenly Eye”, “Radiotelescop sferic cu o apertură de cinci sute de metri”, “Telescopio esferico de quinientos metros de apertura”, “Thiên Nhãn”, “Tianyan”, “Τιανγιάν”, “Небесное око (радиотелескоп)”, “Сферический телескоп с пятисотметровой апертурой”, “Телескоп Тянь Янь”, “Тьяньян”, “中国天眼”, “五百米口径球面射电望远镜”, and “天眼”
- Address: 大窝凼, 黔南布依族苗族自治州, 平塘县, 贵州省
Five Hundred Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST)
- Category: radio telescope
- Location: Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
25.65292° or 25° 39′ 11″ north
Longitude
106.85657° or 106° 51′ 24″ east
Operator
中国科学院国家天文台
Open location code
7PQ8MV34+5J
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
building=observatory
OpenStreetMap feature
man_made=telescope
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Five Hundred Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST)” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فاست”
- Aragonese: “FAST (Radiotelescopio)”
- Aragonese: “FAST”
- Armenian: “FAST ռադիոաստղադիտակ”
- Asturian: “Telescopiu esféricu de quinientos metros d’apertura”
- Catalan: “Radiotelescopi FAST”
- Chinese: “500米口径球面射电望远镜”
- Czech: “FAST”
- Danish: “FAST”
- Dutch: “Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope”
- Esperanto: “500-Metro-Apertura Sfera Teleskopo”
- Finnish: “Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope”
- French: “Radiotélescope sphérique de cinq cents mètres d’ouverture”
- Galician: “Telescopio esférico de cincocentos metros de apertura”
- German: “FAST-Observatorium”
- German: “FAST”
- Greek: “Σφαιρικό Τηλεσκόπιο Διαμετρήματος 500 μέτρων”
- Hebrew: “FAST”
- Indonesian: “Teleskop Sferikal Apertur lima ratus meter”
- Italian: “radiotelescopio FAST - Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope”
- Italian: “Radiotelescopio FAST - Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope”
- Japanese: “500メートル球面電波望遠鏡”
- Kannada: “ಚೀನಾದ ಫಾಸ್ಟ್ ಅಪರ್ಚರ್ ಗೋಲಾಕಾರದ ಟೆಲಿಸ್ಕೋಪ್”
- Korean: “직경 500미터 구면 전파망원경”
- Literary Chinese: “五百粎口徑盂面射電遠鏡”
- Low German: “Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope”
- Luxembourgish: “Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope”
- Macedonian: “Сферен радиотелескоп со петстометарски пречник”
- Malayalam: “ഫൈവ് ഹൺഡ്രഡ് മീറ്റർ അപ്പർച്ചർ സ്ഫെറിക്കൽ ടെലിസ്കോപ്പ്”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “FAST”
- Persian: “تلسکوپ کروی با دیافراگم پانصد متری”
- Polish: “Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope”
- Portuguese: “Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope”
- Romanian: “Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope”
- Romanian: “Telescopul FAST”
- Russian: “FAST”
- Scots: “Five hunner metre Apertur Spherical Telescope”
- Spanish: “Telescopio Esférico de Quinientos Metros de Apertura (FAST)”
- Spanish: “Telescopio esférico de quinientos metros de apertura”
- Swedish: “FAST”
- Tamil: “சொர்க்கத்தின் கண்”
- Turkish: “Beş yüz metre açıklıklı Küresel Radyo Teleskop”
- Ukrainian: “FAST”
- Urdu: “فاسٹ (دوربین)”
- Urdu: “فاسٹ”
- Vietnamese: “Kính viễn vọng hình cầu khẩu độ 500 mét”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: 中国天眼景区 and Bànshānyándòng (Porche en falaise).
Nearby Places
Places to explore: 中国天眼迎宾馆 and 星际家园.
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