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World’s largest solar telescope array is now complete

China’s Daocheng Solar Radio Telescope is among a suite of instruments the country has built in the past three years to study the Sun.
  1. Yvaine Ye
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Aerial view of the parabolic antennas at the construction site of the Solar Radio Telescope in China

A huge ring of radio antennas in China will help researchers to study eruptions in the Sun’s outer atmosphere. Credit: Liu Zhongjun/China News Service/Getty

On the edge of the Tibetan Plateau, engineers just finished mounting the final pieces of hardware onto the world’s largest telescope array for studying the Sun.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-03595-7

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  • Update 14 November 2022: The story was updated to reflect the news that the telescope was completed on 13 November.

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