Detecting planets, galaxies, quasars and other formations is just part of the challenge of astronomy.  The other piece is analyzing the data and making sense of it as well as computer modeling to help illustrate things that we cannot necessrily make sense of as invidicuals.  Now China is embarking on ambitious endeavor that may yield data that even surpasses the Hubble :

China will press its Supercomputer Skyeye-1, capable of a quadrillion computing operations per second, to support space exploration by the world’s largest radio telescope being built in its Guizhou Province.

Assembly of the telescope, with a dish the size of 30 football fields and located deep in the mountains of Guizhou, has got underway, official media reported.

Let’s find out more and check out a video on radio telescopes on page 2

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