China’s New Antarctic Telescope Peers into Space! 🔭❄️
Hey there, space explorers! 🚀 Have you ever wondered what secrets the universe holds? Well, China has just unveiled an amazing new telescope in Antarctica, one of the coldest places on Earth! 🥶 This special telescope, called the Three Gorges Antarctic Eye, is helping scientists learn more about our galaxy, the Milky Way, and how stars are born. 🌟
The Three Gorges Antarctic Eye is a big telescope with a 3.2-meter-wide “eye” that can see radio and millimeter waves from space. But what does that mean? 🤔 Radio waves and millimeter waves are types of invisible light that come from stars and galaxies far, far away. By studying them, scientists can understand what’s happening in space! 🛰️
This telescope started working at China’s Zhongshan Station in Antarctica on April 3rd. It’s super important because it helps scientists observe things like neutral hydrogen and ammonia molecules in the Milky Way. These are like the building blocks of space, and they help us learn how stars form and how space gas moves around. 🌌
Zhang Yi, a scientist working in Antarctica, said that this telescope has broken through some big challenges. It’s not easy to build and use a telescope in such a freezing and windy place! But thanks to the hard work of the team from China Three Gorges University and Shanghai Normal University, they made it happen. 💪
They had to make sure the telescope could handle the super cold temperatures and strong winds of Antarctica. Imagine trying to build a giant telescope in a place where it’s always freezing and the wind blows really hard! 🌬️ But they did it, and now the telescope is opening up new ways to study space. ✨
This project shows how China is getting better and better at exploring space from Antarctica. Because the air is so clear and clean there, it’s a great place to look at space without too much interference. 🌟 Scientists hope that with this telescope, they’ll discover amazing new things about our universe!
Maybe one day, you’ll be a scientist discovering the secrets of space too! Keep looking up at the stars, and who knows what you might find. 🌠
Reference(s):
cgtn.com
