Enlarge / The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which is scheduled for launch later this decade and will observe planets and galaxies. (credit: GSFC/SVS) On Thursday, the National Academies of Science released the latest Decadal Survey that the astronomy industry uses to help guide funding decisions over the years between the current survey’s release and […]
Expand / / The device stage and the wires which until recently endorsed it, as seen in the suspended walkway which enabled researchers to support them. (charge: University of Central Florida) Now the National Science Foundation published video shot at the present time that the Arecibo Radio Observatory’s wires collapsed, permitting its gigantic tool platform […]
The immense instrument platform and the large collection of cables that supported it, all of which are now gone. (credit: NSF) On Monday night, the enormous instrument platform that hung over the Arecibo radio telescope’s big dish collapsed due to the failure of the remaining cables supporting it. The risk of this sort of failure […]
Expand / / A aerial perspective of the Arecibo centre, revealing that the increasingly brittle cables behind the device platform, in addition to the gash generated when one of these cables neglected. Now the National Science Foundation announced that the famous Arecibo radio observatory will be closed down. Built to a hilltop from Puerto Rico, […]