By 1971, NASA signed a memo of understanding to share the costs of maintaining and upgrading the facility. During its many ...

Few telescopes will get an emotional response from the general public when it is ultimately announced that they will be decommissioned. In the case of the Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto ...

Despite Arecibo's discovery days being over, the observatory will be remade into a education center known as Arecibo C3.

Observations from the Arecibo Observatory also led to the detection of the first-millisecond pulsar, PSR B1937+21. It was discovered in 1982 by DC Backer, Shrinivas R. Kulkarni, Carl Heiles, MM ...

The Arecibo Observatory’s “uniquely powerful electromagnetic radiation environment ... Meanwhile, the NSF had planned to reopen the telescope site as an educational center later this month but that ...

In 1963, the Arecibo Observatory became operational on the island of Puerto Rico. Measuring 305 meters (~1000 ft) in diameter, Arecibo’s spherical reflector dish was the largest radio telescope in the ...

it's a steep climb with many stairs from the parking lot to the Science & Visitor Center; however, transportation is available to the top. The observatory is located in Arecibo, approximately 60 ...

Completed in 1974, those upgrades transformed the Arecibo Observatory into a world-class facility for radio astronomy. They included a powerful radio transmitter, as well as a gleaming aluminum ...

The Arecibo Observatory telescope was one ... "While the telescope was a key part of the facility, the observatory has other scientific and educational infrastructure that NSF will work with ...

Video footage shows the moment that one of the world's largest telescopes collapsed at Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory on Tuesday. It had been in operation for 57 years, but shut after engineers ...

The Arecibo Observatory is a radio telescope near the ... The observatory is also called the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center, although "NAIC" refers to both the observatory and the ...

Years after the collapse of the Arecebo telescope data from the radio observatory has helped SETI scientists probe the ...