Telescope
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China claims to begin search for alien life with world's largest radio telescope; to vacate 9000 residents
World | Feb 16, 2016, 09:42 PM ISTBeijing: China will displace nearly 10,000 people to facilitate an ambitious search for alien life with the world's largest radio telescope, Chinese state media reported on Tuesday.The exploration is to begin with a five hundred-metre
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China building telescope with dish size of 30 football fields
World | Jul 29, 2015, 02:06 PM ISTBeijing: Supercomputer Skyeye-1, capable of a quadrillion computing operations per second, will support space exploration by the world's largest radio telescope whose dish size will be equivalent to 30 football fields.Assembly of the telescope, with
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NASA probe flies past Pluto, world awaits historic images
World | Jul 14, 2015, 06:18 PM ISTWashington: In what may rewrite science books soon, NASA's New Horizons mission - launched in 2006 and has travelled over 4.8 billion km so far at the speed of 45,000 km per hour - fly past
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India joins 5-nation project to build thirty meter telescope in Hawaii
Oct 12, 2014, 04:51 PM ISTNew Delhi: As a follow up to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's US visit, India has joined the US and three other countries in a $1.47 billion project to build what will be the second largest