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In 2020, Puerto Rico’s massive Arecibo radio telescope collapsed. The research facility may now be on the cusp of a new chapter. The Arecibo Observatory radio telescope in the hills of Arecibo, Puerto ...
Sus iniciales -muestra Méndez- están allí: AM. Abel Méndez, en las instalaciones de la Universidad de Puerto Rico en Arecibo.Gladys Serrano Obsesionado por explorar la habitabilidad en otros ...
It’s been two and a half years since the Arecibo Observatory’s collapse, and the future of the famous radio telescope’s site remains in limbo. Now, observatory astronomers have refined their ...
El alcalde de Arecibo, Carlos “Tito” Ramírez Irizarry anunció un decreto de cinco días de duelo que inician hoy lunes, 19 y se extiende hasta el viernes, 23 de diciembre, esto ante el ...
That is a constant. It never grows old.” — Carmen Pantoja Arecibo Observatory/NAIC Early on Dec. 1, 2020, 800 tons of steel collapsed into a yawning, forest-fringed concrete bowl once featured in a ...
We are coming up on the second anniversary of the destruction of the iconic 1,000-foot telescope/radar at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. For nearly six decades, the Arecibo Observatory ...
The famous Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico completely collapsed in 2020. Now, scientists going through its final observations offer a major new asteroid report. When you purchase through links ...
Unfortunately, it appears that the National Science Foundation (NSF), the federal agency responsible for the Arecibo Observatory, has decided this facility will not be the site of future cutting ...
When the giant Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico collapsed in December 2020, it punched a hole in astronomy. For half a century Arecibo was the mightiest telescope on the planet. One thousand ...
The 1,000-foot-wide radio telescope dish at Arecibo Observatory, built in a massive natural depression, and the 900-ton instruments platform above (Jeff Hitchcock/Flickr/CC BY 2.0) Per the NSF ...
After a world-famous radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico collapsed two years ago, many scientists hoped that the US National Science Foundation (NSF), which runs the facility ...
About 40 percent of my first full-time job was dedicated to making GIFs—a skill I had professed to have during the interview process, and that turned out to be much harder than I thought.