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NSF announces over $5M in funding to create new STEM education and research center at the Arecibo Observatory site

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Today, the U.S. National Science Foundation announced an investment of over $5 million over five-years for a collaborative partnership between three higher education institutions and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory to establish a new multidisciplinary, world-class educational center at the Arecibo Observatory site in Puerto Rico.

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Aboga por el Observatorio de Arecibo ante el Congreso de EEUU. Contact the US Congress and advocate for the Arecibo Observatory.

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El Arecibo Science Advocacy Partnership (ASAP) está liderando una campaña para abogar por el Observatorio de Arecibo ante el Congreso de los Estados Unidos. A continuación puedes encontrar más información, un borrador de una carta y varios puntos que puedes enfatizar al llamar al Congreso. A continuación su mensaje y borradores.

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Calling on scientists to endorse request for funds for a new radio telescope

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A coalition of scientists from Puerto Rico and the diaspora has launched a call asking the United States government to take into account the opinions of the Puerto Rican scientific community when planning and designing the replacement of the Arecibo Observatory and to make a real financial commitment for its construction. In a letter, the group elaborates on the scientific and educational value that the Arecibo Observatory fulfilled for many years. Among the requests, the group demands that the next project reflect the latest technological advances, preserves and enhances the educational mission that was developed in Arecibo, and has sufficient scientific personnel.

With Eyes towards the Sky: From Puerto Rico to Yale and back again.

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Hector Arce
Professor Hector Arce in his office at Yale

When astrophysicist Dr. Héctor Arce returned home to Puerto Rico in October of 2015, it was to bring a handful of Yale astronomy students to Arecibo Observatory, at that time, the largest single dish radio telescope in the world. For Héctor, a professor of astrophysics at Yale University, passion for the stars started at home. When Héctor was young, his grandfather used to build his own telescopes. “I still have them,” Héctor says. Staring through the lenses of those telescopes with his grandfather opened a universe of possibility for young Héctor.

New consortium to manage the Arecibo Observatory

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A consortium of the University of Central Florida, the Metropolitan University of Puerto Rico, and the company Yang Enterprises will now manage the Arecibo Observatory.

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Maria damages 15 plates of the Observatory of Arecibo

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Wilma Maldonado Arrigoitía

Although it is located in one of the highest areas of Arecibo, the hurricane winds of Maria did not cause havoc in the Arecibo Observatory, and as soon as this Friday, scientific activities should be normalized there.

"We had some minor damage ... We were very lucky," said the director of the Observatory's Center for Geospatial Studies, Tony Van Eyken.

 He explained that the telescope platform was not damaged, only an antenna that can be repaired was affected.

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The Arecibo Observatory studies two huge asteroids

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A pair of space rocks measuring near half a kilometer will pass close to earth in the coming days. Even though their distance is safe, their momentary closeness will allow astronomers to study these asteroids through radio-telescopes, such as the one in Arecibo.

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Arecibo observatory captures images of giant asteroid

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Using the radio-telescope with the most powerful transmission capacity on the planet, astronomers at the Arecibo Observatory, captured radar images of the 2014 JO25 asteroid. Studies performed at the Arecibo Observatory revealed that this asteroid, considered potentially dangerous due to its size and occasional proximity to earth, is two times the previously estimated size. 

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Arecibo Observatory affiliated to Smithsonian

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As part of the 20th anniversary celebration, the Science and Visitor Center at the Arecibo Observatory will host a ceremony to announce their new status as a museum affiliated to the Smithsonian. The event will take place on Thursday, April 20 at 10:00 am in the Science and Visitor Center Auditorium.

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Arecibo Observatory will face economic challenges in the near future

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The Arecibo Observatory will face economic challenges in the next few years but will not close, affirmed engineer Francisco Córdova, director of this world-class research facility.

 

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