China's 'alien hunting' glasses had the first big result

The world's largest radio telescope in China has found two pulse stars after a year of trial operation, Xinhua News reported on October 10.

Pulse stars were discovered on August 22 and 25 by researchers from China National Astronomical Observatory (NAOC), according to scientific director Li Di.

Named J1859-01 and J1931-01 , the two stars are 16,000 and 4,100 light-years away from Earth.

The world's largest radio telescope in China.

Pulsars are stars that rotate faster, larger in the Sun, emitting radiation beams that can only be detected by sensitive telescopes.

"It is encouraging to achieve such results in just one year," said Peng Bo, Fast's vice president.

Completed in September last year, the telescope named Fast covers nearly 30 football fields.

The telescope has spent a third of the test period lasting 3 years. It is located in the mountains of Guizhou Province, southwestern China.

The mission of the telescope is to "listen" to find pulsars and other radio signals - things that can be the focal point of extraterrestrial life.

According to Xinhua, the telescope construction cost is 1.2 billion yuan, equivalent to 4.1 trillion.

The five-year project has moved 8,000 people living in the area, creating the necessary silence in a 5km radius for the telescope to operate.

When fully operational, the scale and complexity of the telescope can lead to important astronomical discoveries, according to the morning South China Post.