China is building the world's largest array of telescopes to study the sun with the aim of improving the understanding of mass ejections which can cause chaos on and above Earth.
A solar radio telescope is being built in southwestern China. It will consist of 313 dishes and form a circle with a diameter of 6 meters.
Large eruptions of charged particles from the sun's upper atmosphere are known as corona eruptions.
There are realignments in the star's magnetic field in sun spots. The safety of astronauts can be at risk when these eruptions are directed at Earth. The colorful Aurora displays that can be observed in the night sky in polar regions can be seen by people who are a part of the CME.
It could take weeks to find satellites that disappear in a solar storm.
The China News Service published images from the construction of the DSRT. According to the South China Morning Post, the array is on schedule to be finished by the end of the year.
The development is part of a ground-based space environment monitoring network.
The Chinese radioheliograph for monitoring solar activity is part of the project.
The radioheliograph will consist of 100 dishes in a three arm spiral arrangement and will study the sun in a wider band of frequencies than DSRT.
The project aims to deploy close to 300 instruments at 31 stations across China. The National Space Science Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences is leading it.
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