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Arecibo will be remembered for an illustrious scientific legacy. Follow Paul on Twitter. Image source, University of Central Florida. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. View original tweet on Twitter. Light shed on mystery space radio pulses Cuts cast doubt on asteroid plan. The beam-steering mechanism, above the telescope, focuses incoming radio waves.

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Rather than looking at only one star at a time, as the Arecibo telescope and its kin were constrained to do, several stars can be examined simultaneously. This again speeds up the process of stellar reconnaissance. In some cases, it may be desirable to sacrifice spectral resolution typically 1 Hz in order to gain additional pixels.

In other words, one can trade amount of sky covered for sensitivity to very narrow-band signals. Depending on the type of signal we expect, this might be a judicious trade-off. In addition, it is easy to expand an array by merely buying additional antennas and connecting them into the system. Single, large dish antennas are not amenable to such simple improvement. Photo: UCF Today. Shop at Amazon. Damage to the dish as a result of the August cable failure. Image: UCF Today.

This drone photo of the Arecibo Observatory was taken after November 6, when a main cable snapped and fell onto the receiving dish below. Note the cable with frayed wires. Science Space. Anyways: — the gift that just keeps on giving.

The planets would then pass more or less overhead. The most southern real estate in the U. The telescope has some limitations: It can only be aimed over a 40 degree range of angles at any given time. But while it can see much of the sky, Arecibo does so with a telephoto lens. Its typical field of view is ten times narrower than the full moon. However, when your research is all about photons — about studying weak or distant emitters of radio waves — then Arecibo goes to the head of the class.

I spent a lot of time at Arecibo studying galaxies that were many millions of light-years away. The antenna is also frequently used for pulsar research and measurement of the emission from planets in our own solar system. Even sky-savvy folk seem to forget that it was Arecibo that Polish astronomer Alex Wolszczsan used to discover the first planet around another star in