Background The Eye of Heaven opened in July 2016. That was when construction was completed for the world’s biggest radio telescope: “Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope” or FAST, located in the Dawodang depression in Pingtang County, Guizhou Province, southwest China. Nicknamed “The Eye of Heaven” or “Heavenly Eye,” it is the size of 30 football fields and cost about 1.2 billion Yuan (£120 million). The project, under the auspices of the National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC), aims to survey neutral hydrogen in distant galaxies and detect faint pulsars. In the first weeks of opening, more than 2,000 pulsars had already been detected. Researchers also hope FAST will improve the chances of detecting low frequency gravitational wave

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