OUR China will launch in 2023 its first large space telescope (if, of course, all the development of the program goes according to plan). baptized from Chinese space station telescope (CSST in the abbreviation in English), it will be the one that is equated to Hubble Space Telescopebut its field of view will be much larger than its counterpart in NASA. The mission is part of a five-year plan Chinese space agency space exploration.

Chinese telescope will have a 10-year mission

Lens mounted on CSST measures just over 2 meters (6.6 ft), identical in size Hubble. The difference is that the field of view will, according to Chinese space agency350 times larger than a telescope on NASA. This greater field of view will make chinese telescope the best option for space observations. In addition, we must take into account the fact that this equipment is 32 years younger. Hubble (excluding 11 years of production before its launch in 1990), which will bring with it the most advanced space observation instruments and a “camera” of 2.5 billion pixels. OUR China plans that mission CSST last 10 years.

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Black holes and exoplanets

Among the spatial objects that Chinese space agency intend to study supermassive black holes and exoplanets. OUR CSST It will also have tools to map the Milky Way’s stellar nursery and high-speed objects such as asteroids and comets.

OUR chinese telescope will move in an orbit similar to Tiangonga Chinese space station. in spite of James Webb Space Telescope is about to start its activities, possible arrival CSST in 2023 will expand the efforts of the scientific community in the field of astronomical research. And the different orbits and instruments in between will make each of them have its own characteristics for different types of research.

See the first photo of a black hole at the center of the Milky Way
Sagittarius A* is located at a distance of 26,000 light years from the solar system.

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Source: BGR