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On November 16, 1974, humans sent their first message to the stars in an attempt to contact extraterrestrials. They did this ...
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The Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico transmitted the most powerful known interstellar message in 1974. The facility’s ...
The combination of large size and weak signal means radio telescopes have to be big, so that they can capture as much data as ...
Rebecca Charbonneau is a historian at the American Institute of Physics, College Park, Maryland, and the author of Mixed Signals: Alien Communication Across the Iron Curtain. As the electronic ...
Four years after the collapse of the world-famous Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico, the exact cause has ... From 1963 to 2016, Arecibo was the largest radio telescope in the world, with a diameter ...
One of the most enduring mysteries of astronomy and space science has come to be known as the ‘Wow! signal'. Now, it has been ...
Powerful electromagnetic radiation from an enormous radio telescope in Puerto Rico may have fast-tracked structural damage that led to the instrument's collapse in 2020, a new report says.
The Arecibo Observatory's giant radio telescope in Puerto Rico suffered a cataclysmic failure in December 2020. Credit: Walter Bibikow / DigitalVision / Getty Images Powerful electromagnetic ...
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