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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

Submitted on 22 February 2018 - 8:41pm

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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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Arecibo Observatory helps solve mystery in galaxy far away

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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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Arecibo Observatory will support NASA in studying asteroid

Submitted on 26 January 2015 - 5:22pm

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The Puerto Rico Observatory in collaboration with NASA will study asteroid 2004 BL86 which is coming to its closest point to Earth on Monday, January 26.

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20th anniversary of a Nobel Prize, made in Puerto Rico

Submitted on 25 September 2013 - 2:36pm

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In 1975, Dr. Joseph Taylor and his graduate student Russell Hulse discovered pulsars using the Arecibo Radiotelescope. In 1993 they won a Nobel Prize in Physics for that discovery, which helped confirm Einstein's theory of relativity.

 

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20th anniversary of a Nobel Prize, made in Puerto Rico

Submitted on 25 September 2013 - 2:36pm

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What do Albert Einstein and the Arecibo Observatory have in common? Twenty-years ago Joseph Taylor and Russell Hulse won a Nobel Prize for their discovery of pulsars, using the Arecibo Observatory to detect these binary stars. This discovery offered evidence of Einstein's theory of relativity.

 

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