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Chinese Giant Solar Telescope

proposed Sun observatory

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 2, 2025
Entity authorityQ5100466 ↗
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The Chinese Giant Solar Telescope (CGST) is a proposed solar telescope in China. CGST will be an infrared and optical solar telescope. Its spatial resolution is equivalent to an 8-meter-diameter telescope, and the light-gathering power equivalent to a 5-meter-diameter telescope. The major scientific goal is to get precise measurement of solar vector magnetic field with high spatial resolution. It is expected to cost US$ 90 million.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 66-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Chinese, Giant and Solar can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as proposed Sun observatory. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “Chinese Giant Solar Telescope” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.