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China has completed construction on the world's largest array of telescopes that will be pointed directly at the sun to study how its behavior impacts Earth.
The Daocheng Solar Radio Telescope (DSRT), which is located on a plateau in Sichuan province of southwest China, is composed of 313 dishes. Each one has a diameter of 19.7 feet and together they form a circle with a circumference of 1.95 miles.
The massive arrangement of scientific machinery, which cost $14 million, is set to study solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CME) - both of which can have a negative impact on electronics, power grids and satellites.
A CME is a huge cloud of electrically charged particles that gets heated to super-hot temperatures and then ejected with a burst of speed by the energy released in a solar flare.
China has completed construction on the world's largest array of telescopes that will be pointed directly at the sun to study how its behavior impacts Earth
The Daocheng Solar Radio Telescope (DSRT), which is located on a plateau in Sichuan province of southwest China, is composed of 313 dishes
'We can forecast whether a solar storm bursts toward the Earth,' Wu Lin, deputy chief designer, Ring Array Solar Radio Imaging Telescope Project, said.
