A (remark) image of the Andromeda Galaxy, located over 2 million light-years from Earth, has been released after the use of the most powerful wide-field telescope in the Northern Hemisphere, demonstrating its capability.
China's Wide Field Survey Telescope (WFST) (put) into operation on Sunday in Northwest China's Qinghai Province, developed by the University of Science and Technology of China and the Purple Mountain Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). The telescope, is also known as the Mozi surveying telescope, will be (extreme) useful for enhancing China's capabilities in time-domain astronomical (天文的) research, according to CAS. Mozi was an ancient Chinese philosopher who is said to be the first in history (conduct) optical (光学的) experiments.
According to CAS, the WFST boasts an optical telescope of 2.5 meters in diameter and a 765-million-pixel camera, equipping it the strong surveying ability that allows it to survey the entire northern sky every three nights.
The Andromeda Galaxy is closest large spiral (旋涡) galaxy to the Milky Way and (have) a similar structure and metallicity, making it an ideal research object for exploring the formation and evolution of the Milky Way and similar galaxies. The WFST has both a large field of view high-resolution imaging capabilities, enabling it to take multicolor images of the Andromeda Galaxy and its outlying regions. The telescope generated the image using 150 photos (take) on multiple nights of observation.
