{"id":72894,"date":"2016-09-26T13:45:05","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T17:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techvibes.com\/?p=72894"},"modified":"2016-09-26T13:45:05","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T17:45:05","slug":"china-launches-worlds-largest-radio-telescope-in-search-of-extraterrestrial-life","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/china-launches-worlds-largest-radio-telescope-in-search-of-extraterrestrial-life","title":{"rendered":"China Launches World&#8217;s Largest Radio Telescope in Search of Extraterrestrial Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s ambitions in space have reached new heights: this week the world&#8217;s largest radio telescope began searching for signals from stars and galaxies.<\/p>\n<p>In pursuit of extraterrestrial life, Beijing has poured billions into such projects. China&#8217;s military-backed space program funded this latest device, which measures 500 meters in diameter.<\/p>\n<p>The radio telescope cost $180 million and took five years to build. It requires radio silence within a three-mile radius; to accomplish this, China relocated more than 8,000 people from their homes across eight villages.<\/p>\n<p>So far, the telescope has received radio signals as far as 1,350 lightyears from Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month China launched the Tiangong 2, its second space station. The nation plans to send a mission to Mars.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/borndigital.com\/2016\/07\/06\/seeking-explorers-for-the-next-generation-of-space-travel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s ambitions in space have reached new heights: this week the world&#8217;s largest radio telescope began searching for signals from stars and galaxies. In pursuit of extraterrestrial life, Beijing has poured billions into such projects. China&#8217;s military-backed space program funded this latest device, which measures 500 meters in diameter. The radio telescope cost $180 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55555,"featured_media":72896,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-72894","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-News"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/72894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/55555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/72894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/72896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72894"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=72894"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=72894"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=72894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}