Data collected by the Arecibo Radio Telescope before it collapsed late last year will help astronomers better understand how our local neighbourhood of galaxies formed. Arecibo was the world's largest single-dish radio telescope until it was surpassed in 2016 by China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST). At the end of 2020, Arecibo's 900-ton receiver platform suddenly and spectacularly fell onto the dish below, destroying the telescope.
from Latest Science News -- ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/12/211201112000.htm
from Latest Science News -- ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/12/211201112000.htm
Arecibo data still has astronomers in a spin
Reviewed by cmakigo
on
December 02, 2021
Rating:
No comments:
Post a Comment