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The 2.0-meter aperture radio/millimeter-wave telescope, the "Three Gorges Antarctic Eye", has been successfully deployed at the Zhongshan Station in Antarctica, realizing China's first radio astronomical observation at the Zhongshan Station in Antarctica.The Three Gorges University, together with the China Polar Research Center and Shanghai Normal University, announced this information in Yichang, Hubei Province on the 3th.

The "Three Gorges Antarctic Eye" was successfully deployed at Zhongshan Station in Antarctica (data map). xiang yuexian="center">

Radio telescopes are an important tool for "capturing" information about electromagnetic waves in the universe. According to publicly released information, the Three Gorges Antarctic Eye Radio Astronomy Telescope has the ability to detect radio signals below 600 GHz. The device has officially carried out astronomical observation research on the molecular lines of neutral hydrogen and ammonia in the Milky Way at Zhongshan Station in Antarctica, and obtained radio astronomical observation data of more than 0MB.

Zhang Yi, associate professor of Shanghai Normal University and member of the Chinese Antarctic expedition, said,The device breaks through the key technical bottleneck of the construction of the Antarctic Observatory and lays the foundation for the development of the Antarctic submillimeter wave telescope.In the future, it will be extended to the observation of multiple radio to low-frequency millimeter wave signal signals, and make technical accumulation for the development of Antarctic submillimeter astronomical telescope.

Since the beginning of 2023, China Three Gorges University and Shanghai Normal University have carried out cooperative research on Antarctic astronomy, and after two years of hard work, they have made breakthroughs in key technologies such as adaptation to extreme cold and windy environments, and successfully developed and installed the "Three Gorges Antarctic Eye", a major scientific research device, in Antarctica.