The Arecibo Observatory is part of the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center (NAIC), a national research center operated by Cornell University.
Funding for the Arecibo Observatory is at risk and the science center may be closed.
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The Arecibo Observatory is part of the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center (NAIC), a national research center operated by Cornell University.
Funding for the Arecibo Observatory is at risk and the science center may be closed.
Photo: Roger Ressmeyer/Corbis Arecibo, Puerto Rico: The 1000-meter radio telescope dish at dawn. This fall, the world's largest telescope will begin its scientific mission. Made up of radio telescopes in Chile, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Puerto Rico, South Africa, and Sweden, the e-VLBI—for electronic very long baseline interferometer—creates in effect... Read Full Story
The SETI@Home project is not only the longest running search for radio signals from alien civilizations, but it also boasts the largest community of dedicated users of any Internet computing project. The premise is simple; instead of backlogging all the information gathered in the search for extraterrestrial life and hoping to get to it one day, distribute it out across the internet to hundreds of thousands of willing computer users. That is the basic idea behind SETI@Home, which consists... Read Full Story
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Electronic dance beats and laser lights land themselves in the beautiful hill country setting of that surrounds the Guadalupe River. Austin’s Ghostland Observatory are scheduled to perform in the newly opened White Water On The Horseshoe outdoor amphitheatre. The 3,500 capacity venue, with it’s stage nestled in the trees alongside the banks of the Guadalupe river, opened earlier this year and has been busy keeping it’s calender filled with major acts. For those in... Read Full Story
Arecibo Observatory, the world’s largest radio telescope and the source for
the SETI@home data that your computer analyzes, faces massive budget cuts that
will END its ability to continue the search for life beyond Earth. The decision
to ensure full funding currently rests upon votes in Congress on Senate Bill S.
2862 and House Resolution H.R. 3737. These bills desperately need more support.
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Arecibo telescope finds critical ingredients for the soup of life in a galaxy far, far away. Astronomers from Arecibo Observatory radio telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, have detected for the first time the molecules methanimine and hydrogen cyanide -- two ingredients that build life-forming amino acids -- in a galaxy some 250 million light years away. When combined with water, the molecules form glycene, the simplest amino acid and a building block of life on Earth. The Arecibo... Read Full Story
