The telescope, dubbed Xuntian, will be installed by China’s Tiangong space station and will co-orbit with it, according to a statement from Lin Xiqiang, spokesperson and deputy director general of the Chinese Manned Space Agency.

Source: https://www.dailyexcelsior.com/china-announces-plan-for-a-new-space-telescope-as-it-readies-to-launch-its-next-space-station-crew/

The telescope is also called “the world’s largest eye on the sky” and is comparable in size to a football field.

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The telescope is one half of the International Gemini Observatory, operated by NSF’s NOIRLab.

Source: https://metro.co.uk/2023/07/14/dying-red-giant-star-stunning-image-19128993/

The telescope recorded one of these fast radio bursts in a place where light takes eight billion years to reach Earth.

Source: https://houstonianonline.com/cosmic-radio-waves-detected-at-the-furthest-distance-ever-from-earth-sciences/