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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Astronomers identified, for the first time, the location of repetitive emissions called fast radio bursts (FRB) to a galaxy 2.5 billion years away. The Arecibo Observatory played a key role in identifying the location of these FRB.

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The Arecibo Observatory Space Academy, is recruiting hisgh school students for the Pre-College Research Program. The deadline to apply is today, August 14th, 2015. To apply for the program visit the online application. Materials also include an essay and academic grades of last 2 semesters. The program runs for 10 Saturdays and starts on August 29th, 2015.

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