As the world's largest radio/radar telescope when it was commissioned in 1963, the Arecibo Observatory saw countless firsts, from revealing the ...

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Astronomy talked to Arecibo researchers who worked at the telescope throughout its long history. Pioneering figures Gordon and astrophysicist Thomas Gold are no longer alive, but their voices appear ...

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On November 16, 1974, humans sent their first message to the stars in an attempt to contact extraterrestrials. They did this using what was then the largest radio telescope in the world, located at ...

The Arecibo Observatory has been the world's largest single-aperture telescope for more than 50 years. But decreasing funding for its mission could result in its retirement and destruction in the near ...

The dramatic 2020 collapse of the famous Arecibo Telescope was 39 months in the making, according to a new federal report.

On Dec. 1, 2020, the Arecibo telescope collapsed. The Puerto Rico facility had already suffered two cable failures – one in August and one in November – and engineers had predicted that the increased ...

The world-renowned radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in northern Puerto Rico, now on the brink of collapse, is set to be withdrawn from service, the National Science Foundation (NSF) ...

The December 2020 collapse of the Arecibo Telescope in Puerto Rico came at the end of a 39-month sequence that began with Hurricane Maria in 2017, according to a new report from the National Academies ...

A Zinc decay was to blame for cable failures at the Arecibo Observatory, which held the title of "world's largest radio telescope." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...