AO is proud and grateful to the women who conduct and support science and engineering at the Arecibo Observatory. We asked some of them about their experiences at AO and what motivates them in STEM. + Read More
We
are happy to announce that the Ángel Ramos Foundation Science and
Visitor's Center was officially re-opened on Thursday, March 10th. + Read More
New Release
AO Salvage Survey Committee Report
The
Arecibo Observatory Salvage Survey Committee has released the first
report on historical items that have been preserved from the 305 m
Legacy Arecibo Telescope, + Read More
In the two months since resuming operations, AO’s 12 m radio
telescope has produced time-series maps of the Sun, illuminating
radio-bright, time-dependent active regions.
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PRISMA
PRISMA will be the first Carribean all-sky VHF Meteor Radar facility. The radar system arrived from the ALO in Chile and is being tested and prepared for installation at the Remote Optical Facility in Culebra. + Read More
Arecibo in the news
Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva/Spaceengine: M. Zamani
AO’s Dr. Maxime Devogèle was part of an international team that confirmed the status of asteroid 2020 XL5 as a transient Trojan in a publication in Nature Communications.