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.

In 1963, the Arecibo Observatory became operational on the island of Puerto Rico. Measuring 305 meters (~1000 ft) in diameter ...

The collapse of the 305-meter telescope at Arecibo Observatory in 2020 is being attributed to zinc creep – slow deformation ...

New observations of microscopic vortices confirm the existence of a paradoxical phase of matter that may also arise inside ...

radio telescope for good reason. This instrument has detected more fast radio bursts than any other, making the newly ...

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Roman Coronagraph integrated with NASA's Roman Space Telescope Telescope aims to find planets 100 million times fainter than ...

Fast radio bursts, first discovered just over a decade ago ... currently the most sensitive radio telescope in the world.

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