FAST is set to open its 2024 observation season to global applications

China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) is set to open its 2024 observation season to global applications.The FAST, the world’s largest filled-aperture telescope, will accept worldwide applications for free observation projects between August 2024 and July 2025, and relevant applications can be submitted through the official website of China’s FAST.

The FAST is currently undertaking observation tasks for scientific objectives such as pulsar search and timing, neutral hydrogen sky survey, and fast radio bursts.With exceptional sensitivity, the FAST has detected over 890 pulsars as of the beginning of this year, more than triple the combined total detected by similar telescopes abroad during the same period.