China has completed the world’s largest solar-powered radio telescope. The facility consists of 313 saucer-shaped antennas that form a circle with a diameter of 1,000 meters, the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced on Wednesday.
The Daocheng Solar Radio Telescope (DSRT) is located at an altitude of over 3800 meters on the edge of the Tibetan Plateau. As the state news agency Xinhua reported, scientists want to use the facility to observe solar flares more closely and investigate their effects on Earth, among other things.
The system consists of 313 antenna dishes
The DSRT consists of 313 antenna dishes arranged in a circular pattern in a formation with a circumference of three kilometers. Initial tests with the telescope will begin in June 2024 and will focus on an impending increase in solar activity over the next few years, specifically how solar flares (called flares, n.d.) will affect Earth.
In recent years, a number of new solar radio telescopes have been commissioned worldwide. China can now provide important data on solar activity not visible to telescopes in other time zones, the scientific journal Nature quoted Beijing University solar physicist Hui Tian as saying.
Several satellites were launched to observe the sun
According to this, China has all the necessary instruments to observe the sun from the surface to the outer atmosphere. According to Nature, the country has launched at least four solar observing satellites in the past two years alone.
Source: Krone
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