Engineering

August 14, 2019

The money will be used during the next four years to make a range of repairs and improvements to the facility, which will also expand Arecibo’s capabilities to do cutting edge observations.

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Educación

Aug 30, 2019

El Observatorio de Arecibo celebra el regreso a clases con una variedad de nuevas exhibiciones tituladas Sol, Tierra y Universo, auspiciadas por la NASA y la red Nacional de educación informal STEM (NISE por sus siglas en ingles). Read More

Today, the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico hosted a celebration for Asteroid Day 2019, but one space rock made a surprise early appearance. On June 22, at around 5:25 pm local time, an explosion was detected in the atmosphere over the Caribbean just 230 miles (380 km) south of Puerto Rico. Read More

Our Telescope Operations Manager was recently awarded with the Yasme Excellence Award. This award is made by the Yasme Foundation - Non Profit corporation organized to support scientific and educational projects related to amateur radio - in recognition of technical. operating, and organization achievements in and contributions to amateur radio. Particularly, the Yasme foundation was interested in recognizing the work that Mr. Vazquez did after Hurricane Maria in providing disaster recovery communications to the citizens of Puerto Rico, as well as, working with federal agencies to facilitate relief operations. Read More