China will build the second giant telescope to find aliens

Having owned the world's largest telescope, China is now planning to continue to build the second giant telescope to promote the search for other life outside the universe and solve many another mystery that humans have not found a solution.

According to technology news website Cnet, with this second giant radio telescope, China will be able to enhance its ability to search for outsiders, dark matter, gravity waves and other mysteries in the universe. . The country currently owns the world's largest radio telescope with the name . long:. Along with Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory, these two telescopes are basically giant plates created in the mountains. However, one disadvantage of these two telescopes is that they cannot rotate. The largest rotating telescope in the world is currently Green Bank in West Virginia (USA) with the ability to move according to the operator to target specific goals.

FAST telescope.

It is known that China's new telescope construction plan has just been approved this week. The glass is expected to be located in northwestern Xinjiang Autonomous Region of China, and is called the Xingjiang Qitai 110 Radio Telescope (QTT) . This telescope will be able to rotate, with a disc diameter about 10% larger than Green Bank and the ability to cover 75% of the sky.

"This antenna is the world's largest, and can trace the origin of any signal it receives," said Song Huagang at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

it is possible to catch several frequencies lower than the frequencies that QTT can capture, but both of these giant radio telescopes will have overlapping coverage within the range of about 150 MHz to 3 GHz. .

Doug Vakock, at METI International, where the task of searching for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has said that this coverage overlap is important because it has something called a "water hole" (water hole) is particularly concerned by SETI researchers.

"It's a quiet space between the outstanding spectra of hydrogen and hydroxyl spectroscopy, components of water - which is the center of all life on Earth" - he said - "repetition region The number of QTT and FAST is significant, because when a signal is detected by a telescope, it can be further monitored by the other telescope, and the data will be analyzed in real time. ".

Green Bank radio telescope in West Virginia.

But the value of QTT - Vakock added - will not only be limited to the ability to search for signs of distant civilizations, but also that it will contribute to the process of deciphering other natural mysteries. of the universe. It is important to remember that only during the testing process, the FAST telescope was able to discover two hidden crystals.

We will have to wait a little longer (quite long) to know how effective the "cooperation contract" between FAST and QTT will be. Can they find aliens' signals? And much more?

QTT is expected to operate in 2023.