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Arecibo

American  
[ahr-uh-see-boh, ah-re-see-baw] / ˌɑr əˈsi boʊ, ˈɑ rɛˈsi βɔ /

noun

  1. a seaport in northern Puerto Rico.


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Ever since childhood, the singer-songwriter, born Carolina Isabel Colón Juarbe in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, has done everything to make sure her pop star dreams come true.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 30, 2025

This pilot study, part of the AO327 survey from Arecibo, serves as a foundation for future research on pulsar scintillation and gravitational waves.

From Science Daily Nov. 26, 2024

Before the telescope’s collapse, the NSF was contributing $7.5 million annually to Arecibo, and management of the site was led by the University of Central Florida in Orlando.

From Scientific American Aug. 16, 2023

The discovery was made by scientists collecting over 15 years of observations with the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia and the Very Large Array in New Mexico.

From Salon Jun. 29, 2023

This was the assumption underlying a message that was broadcast into space by the Arecibo radio telescope in 1974.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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