It's part of a wider project aimed at investigating dangerous solar eruptions.
China is building the world's largest array of telescopes designed to study the Sun, a report fromThe array, called the Daocheng Solar Radio Telescope , will help scientists better understand coronal mass ejections — massive solar eruptions that have the potential to knock out the world's internet and disrupt global satellite services.The DSRT is currently under construction on a plateau in the Sichuan province, southwest China.
95 miles , with a total of 313 dishes, each with a diameter of 19.7 feet . The telescope array will observe the Sun in radio waves.Coronal mass ejections are massive expulsions of plasma and magnetic fields from the Sun's surface, the corona. They send highly-charged particles in waves out towards the outer Solar System.
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