If humanity ventures into interstellar travel in the future, how will we find our way forward? In the vast sky, over 3,000 pulsars discovered by humans will serve as "lighthouses" for cosmic navigation. Among them, over 900 pulsars are detected by China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), also known as "China Sky Eye." Each pulsar has its own unique pulse and stable rotation frequency, collectively constructing a "cosmic coordinate system."
Recently, the FAST Operation and Development Center of the National Astronomical Observatories of China announced that over 900 new pulsars have been discovered by the "China Sky Eye" located in a deep and round karst depression in southwest China's Guizhou Province.
This number is more than three times the total number of pulsars discovered by other telescopes worldwide during the same period. Most of these are faint pulsars that are difficult to detect by other telescopes worldwide, including over 120 binary pulsars, over 170 millisecond pulsars, and 80 faint sporadic pulsars.
Over a span of three years, it has released the world's largest sample of neutral hydrogen galaxies, totaling 41,741, exceeding the observation results of the previous 13 years of the world's largest radio telescope, Arecibo.
Jiang Peng, chief engineer of the FAST, stated that the "China Sky Eye" is actively planning the FAST Core Array Project and is confident in maintaining FAST's core competitiveness and leading scientific advantages among similar international facilities at a significantly low cost for the foreseeable future.
Planner | Cao Si
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