China next year,
intends to complete the construction of the five hundred meter Aperture
Spherical Telescope (FAST) - one of the world's largest radio telescopes. As
the name implies, the diameter of the telescope is 500 meters. Thus, according
to this indicator FAST significantly surpass radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory,
which has a mirror diameter of about 305 meters of the reflector is currently
one of the largest in the world (using one of the aperture).
