{"id":23402,"date":"2017-01-15T09:24:18","date_gmt":"2017-01-15T13:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=23402"},"modified":"2017-01-15T09:24:18","modified_gmt":"2017-01-15T13:24:18","slug":"arecibo-legendary-radio-telescope-hangs-in-the-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/arecibo-legendary-radio-telescope-hangs-in-the-balance\/","title":{"rendered":"Arecibo: Legendary radio telescope hangs in the balance"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Arecibo Radio Telescope, at Arecibo, Puerto Rico. At 1000 feet (305 m) across, it is the second largest dish antenna in the world. (Source: Wikipedia)<\/p><\/div>\n

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Richard Langley, who shares the following story from Nature<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“Some of the observatories targeted in the review have found potential partners: New Mexico State University in Las Cruces is leading an effort to take over the Dunn Solar Telescope in Sunspot, New Mexico. Others remain in limbo, including the 100-metre radio telescope in Green Bank, West [Virgina], where university partners have offered limited help.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click here to read the full article on Nature’s website.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Richard Langley, who shares the following story from Nature: “Some of the observatories targeted in the review have found potential partners: New Mexico State University in Las Cruces is leading an effort to take over the Dunn Solar Telescope in Sunspot, New Mexico. Others remain in limbo, including the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[582,581,3516],"class_list":["post-23402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-arecibo-observatory","tag-radio-astronomy","tag-richard-langley"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-65s","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":46948,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/video-physicist-reminisces-about-arecibo-radio-telescope\/","url_meta":{"origin":23402,"position":0},"title":"Video: Physicist reminisces about Arecibo Radio Telescope","author":"Thomas","date":"December 16, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, TomL, who shares the following: I came across this youtube video about a physicist who worked there in his early years and gives this tribute to his time there. 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