{"id":13511,"date":"2016-07-12T11:27:34","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T11:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=13511"},"modified":"2016-07-12T11:28:05","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T11:28:05","slug":"worlds-largest-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/worlds-largest-telescope\/","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s largest telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Which of the following country has constructed the world&#8217;s largest telescope?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) China<br \/>\n(b) Russia<br \/>\n(c) United Sates of America<br \/>\n(d) France<br \/>\n<strong>Ans: (a)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 3 July 2016 China has completed the construction of the world&#8217;s largest telescope with the aperture of 500m.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Five Hundred Metre Aperture Spherical Telescope, or FAST, is the size of 30 football fields and consists of small triangular panels.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">It consists of 4,450 panels.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">It has been cut out of a mountain in the south-western province of Guizhou, China.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The project has the potential to search for more strange objects to better understand the origin of the universe and boost the global hunt for extraterrestrial life.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The telescope is built by National Astronomical Observation under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Construction of the telescope began in 2011 which costed $180 million.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/jul\/03\/china-puts-finishing-touches-to-worlds-biggest-radio-telescope\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/jul\/03\/china-puts-finishing-touches-to-worlds-biggest-radio-telescope<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2016\/07\/china-puts-final-touches-world-largest-telescope-160703080236077.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2016\/07\/china-puts-final-touches-world-largest-telescope-160703080236077.html<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sputniknews.com\/asia\/20160703\/1042374917\/china-worlds-biggest-radio-telescope.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/sputniknews.com\/asia\/20160703\/1042374917\/china-worlds-biggest-radio-telescope.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Which of the following country has constructed the world&#8217;s largest telescope? (a) China (b) Russia (c) United Sates of America (d) France Ans: (a) Related facts: On 3 July 2016 China has completed the construction of the world&#8217;s largest telescope with the aperture of 500m. The Five Hundred Metre Aperture Spherical Telescope, or FAST, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1131],"tags":[2377],"class_list":["post-13511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dssn","tag-defensescience-short-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}