Arecibo Observatory

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noun

a radio-astronomy and ionospheric observatory near Arecibo, Puerto Rico: site of one of the world's largest single-dish radio telescopes, 1,000 feet (305 meters) in diameter.

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Though the collapse of the giant Arecibo Observatory in 2020 — at 305 meters across, it was the largest single dish radio telescope for most of its lifetime — was tragic and unexpected, radio astronomers have new facilities in the works.
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Even in late 2020, the 57-year-old Arecibo Observatory still had “a bright scientific future,” says Joan Schmelz.
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On December 1, a crucial cable snapped at the iconic Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.
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Lenormand managed to jump publicly from an observatory and survive.
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The instrument is attached to the Anglo-Australian Telescope at the Siding Spring Observatory, northwest of Sydney, Australia.
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Because GRBs are so rare, the best way to look for them is with an automated observatory.
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I visited the Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico two years ago, where the telescope taking data for BOSS is located.
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Captain Vane came from the observatory, his face blazing with excitement and oily with heat, to announce the fact.
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Sometimes the Time Observatory would pinpoint an age and hover over it while his companions took painstaking historical notes.
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The iris of the human eye dilates and contracts with every shift of illumination, and the Time Observatory had an iris too.
The Man from Time|Frank Belknap Long
He remained on his feet just long enough to see his Time Observatory dim and vanish.
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Ascending into the Time Observatory a thought came unbidden into his mind: Others he saved, himself he could not save.
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British Dictionary definitions for Arecibo Observatory

Arecibo Observatory

/ (Spanish ɑreˈθiβo) /

noun

an observatory in Puerto Rico at which the world's largest dish radio telescope (diameter 305 m) is situated. It is operated by the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center

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