The Chinese ghost town with a brighter stargazing future
Lenghu on the Tibetan Plateau was abandoned when the oil ran out in the 1960s.
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Lenghu on the Tibetan Plateau was abandoned when the oil ran out in the 1960s.
At more than 2.5 kilometers high, Lenghu is “known to have a clear sky as usual,” says Licai Deng, a scientist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and
Chinese scientists have found that the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau could be suitable for installing next-generation large astronomical telescopes, according to a new study published in the journal Nature.
While the study of the area is released now, details of the proposed observatory had been reported in April this year.
A new potential astronomical observation site on the Tibetan Plateau is detailed in a paper in Nature. Sometimes nicknamed the Earth's "third pole", this...