23 June 2019
Chinese astronomers plan to use the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) to search for birthplaces of new suns so they can better understand how stars and life substances are formed. "The high sensitivity of FAST and its advantage in sky coverage will enable us to study the molecular clouds in the Milky Way, as well as in the Andromeda Galaxy, adjacent to our galaxy," Li Di, Chief Scientist of FAST said. "We also plan to cooperate with the Milky Way Image Scroll Project of the Purple Mountain Observatory to catch the dark clouds at birth, and to study how many new suns will be born in our galaxy."
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