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 , Guizhou, southwestern China.
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  • 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”, and “Tianyan”
  • Address: kedu

Five Hundred Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST)

Latitude
25.65292° or 25° 39′ 11″ north
Longitude
106.85657° or 106° 51′ 24″ east
Open location code
7PQ8MV34+5J
Open­Street­Map ID
way 384699313
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­observatory
Open­Street­Map feature
man_made=­telescope
Wiki­data ID
Q1827255
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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”
  • Chinese: “FAST”
  • Chinese: “中国天眼”
  • Chinese: “五百米口径球面射电望远镜”
  • Chinese: “五百粎口徑盂面射電遠鏡”
  • Chinese: “天眼”
  • 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: “FAST”
  • French: “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”
  • German: “Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope”
  • German: “Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope”
  • Greek: “FAST”
  • Greek: “Σφαιρικό Τηλεσκόπιο Διαμετρήματος 500 μέτρων”
  • Greek: “Τιανγιάν”
  • 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: “FAST”
  • 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: “FAST”
  • Romanian: “Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope”
  • Romanian: “Radiotelescop sferic cu o apertură de cinci sute de metri”
  • Romanian: “Telescopul FAST”
  • Russian: “FAST”
  • Russian: “Небесное око (радиотелескоп)”
  • Russian: “Сферический телескоп с пятисотметровой апертурой”
  • Russian: “Телескоп Тянь Янь”
  • Russian: “Тьяньян”
  • Scots: “Five hunner metre Apertur Spherical Telescope”
  • Spanish: “FAST”
  • Spanish: “Telescopio Esférico de Quinientos Metros de Apertura (FAST)”
  • Spanish: “Telescopio esferico de quinientos metros de apertura”
  • Spanish: “Telescopio esférico de quinientos metros de apertura”
  • Swedish: “FAST”
  • Swedish: “Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope”
  • Tamil: “சொர்க்கத்தின் கண்”
  • Turkish: “Beş yüz metre açıklıklı Küresel Radyo Teleskop”
  • Turkish: “Tianyan”
  • Ukrainian: “FAST”
  • Urdu: “فاسٹ (دوربین)”
  • Urdu: “فاسٹ”
  • Vietnamese: “FAST”
  • Vietnamese: “Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope”
  • Vietnamese: “Kính viễn vọng hình cầu khẩu độ 500 mét”
  • Vietnamese: “Thiên Nhãn”

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