The world’s largest radio telescope is joining an international search for extraterrestrial intelligence focused on a strange, flickering star that has sparked unprecedented curiosity in recent months.

The world’s largest radio telescope, in southwestern Guizhou (貴州) province, is joining an international search for extraterrestrial intelligence focused on a strange, flickering star that has sparked unprecedented curiosity in recent months.

By Stephen Chen South China Morning Post 10-31-16

Andrew Siemion, director of the SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) Research Centre at the University of California, Berkeley, said in October that the centre had entered into a partnership with the FAST radio telescope in the hunt for evidence of advanced civilisation in space.
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CHINA (WKRC) - China is taking the search for extraterrestrial life to a whole new level. And 9,000 people are losing their homes to make it happen. The country is building the largest radio telescope in the world.

By WKRC 2-17-16

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China says the telescope will be a breakthrough in the search for alien life. [...]
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