(Yicai Global) Oct. 10 -- After being in operation for one year, China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), has discovered two new pulsars.

The two stars are 4,100 and 16,000 light years away from Earth, state-owned news agency Xinhua's WeChat channel quoted the Chinese Academy of Sciences' National Astronomical Observatories of China as saying in a statement on Oct. 10.

The occasion marks the first time FAST has discovered pulsars.

The Chinese telescope went into operation on Sept. 25 last year. It is the world's largest radio telescope and second-largest single-dish aperture.