Articles tagged: Arecibo telescope

• June 2021 Arecibo - an astounding legacy

  ...the period of the Crab pulsar In 1974, the Arecibo telescope received its first significant upgrade. The wire-mesh surface... to explain the ultra-fast rotation. In 2001, the Arecibo telescope celebrated the new century by gaining recognition as an IEEE...

  • Arecibo Observatory
  • Arecibo telescope
  • planetary radar
  • Radio astronomy
  Authors: Joan Schmelz    
• October 2016 The dwarf galaxy problem

  ... that simulations predict a galaxy of its size should have around 25. As part of the AGES (Arecibo Galaxy Environment Survey) we have used the Arecibo telescope, in Puerto Rico, to observe the neutral hydrogen gas in and around M33. Our data...

  • Andromeda
  • dwarf galaxies
  • Milky Way
  Authors: Olivia Keenan    
• September 2017 Telescope targets enigmatic deep space mystery

  ... the theories, astronomers have no conclusive proof yet as to what they might be. Nonetheless, in 2016 an FRB discovered at the Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico, has been found to repeat and has been localised to a dwarf galaxy three billion light...

  • FRB
  • Lorimer burst
  • Small Magellanic Clouds
  • UTMOST
  Authors: Manisha Caleb