In the mountain valleys of Guizhou Province, a steel dish half a kilometer wide has spent a decade doing what no other instrument on Earth could: listening to the universe with unmatched patience and precision. China's FAST telescope has now identified more than 1,300 pulsars — the spinning remnants of collapsed stars that pulse like distant beacons — surpassing the combined discoveries of every other international telescope over the same period. The achievement, announced at a conference in Guiyang as the telescope approaches its tenth anniversary, signals not merely a scientific milestone bu