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US opts to not rebuild renowned Puerto Rico telescope
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe National Science Foundation announced Thursday that it will not rebuild a renowned radio...
An enormous radio telescope may soon be a powerful tool for planetary defense
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 11 months agolarge dish on earth sends waves out to the moon in illustration In Overmatched, we take a close look...
World's largest radio telescope gets help from smart maintenance robots
Space via Yahoo News· 11 months agoA large man-made dish sits like a crater surrounded by utility towers in a mountainous forest....
30 Things You Didn't Know About Puerto Rico
Cheapism via AOL· 2 years agoMary Baratto/istockphoto Hurricane Fiona pummeled Puerto Rico over the weekend, resulting in power outages for much of the island. Widespread flooding...
How Telescopes Light Up the Invisible Parts of Our Universe, Letting Us Peek Back in Time
Popular Mechanics via Yahoo Finance· 2 years agoDue to how light travels, we can only see the most eye-popping details of space—like nebulas,...
Astronomers ‘hear’ the celestial choir of gravitational waves for the first time
CNN via Yahoo News· 12 months agoEditor’s Note: Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on...
Remembering the Arecibo Observatory Dish, Two Years After Its Collapse
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIt happened in less than 10 seconds, two years ago today: The Arecibo Observatory’s 1,000-foot radio...
Astronomers used dead stars to detect a new form of ripple in space-time
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 12 months agoTwo giant black holes, in the upper left, collide and distort the bright pulsars around them in this...
Searching for extraterrestrial intelligence: The science behind 'Contact'
SYFY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoOver a quarter-century ago, famed astrophysicist and science communicator Carl Sagan and his wife...
Supermassive black hum: Scientists discover gravitational wave background that permeates universe
Salon via Yahoo News· 12 months agoGravitational waves hum conceptPhoto courtesy of Aurore Simonnet for the NANOGrav Collaboration On...