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China Allows Foreign Astronomers to Use its Radio Telescope to Look for Aliens Published January 5th, 2021 - 11:48 GMT To date, its systems have recorded at least 240 pulsars, including a 'millisecond pulsar' that is spinning 18,990 rotations per minute. AFP/FILE Highlights Approximately 10 percent of observation slots will be allotted to foreigners. China will permit foreign astronomers to use its 1,600-foot radio telescope for the first time this summer. The Five-hundred meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) is the world's largest single-disc radio observatory, used for spo...

Puerto Rico To Spend $8 Million USD to Rebuild the Collapsed Arecibo Telescope: Although the entire project will cost more money.

Finding the gifts of home For Houston’s Puerto Rican population, a bittersweet Día de Reyes in a year without travel. By Story and multimedia Marie D. De Jesús Houston Chronicle Finding the gifts of home For Houston’s Puerto Rican population, a bittersweet Día de Reyes in a year without travel. By Story and multimedia Marie D. De Jesús Houston Chronicle Published Jan. 1, 2021 Every year, at sunrise on Jan. 6, Marian Cabanillas would awake to mud and grass tracks inside her childhood home in Houston. Her father would say the reyes magos had come in the night and their camels had left...

The 10 biggest space discoveries and stories of 2020 Space 12/30/2020 Doris Elin Urrutia © Provided by Space In 2020, scientists announced the potential discovery of phosphine in in the clouds of Venus, sparking speculation on its implications for life.  For many reasons, 2020 may be a watershed year for society and science. Astronomers and space agencies spent the year managing the repercussions of the coronavirus pandemic. They also made breakthroughs in new technologies and bid farewell to several important projects.  This year saw a new age of sample-retrieval missi...

Puerto Rico earmarks $8 mn for Arecibo Observatory reconstruction 2 minutes read San Juan, Dec 28 (efe-epa).- The Puerto Rican government on Monday announced the allocation of $8 million to rebuild the Arecibo Observatory, one of the world’s largest single-dish radiotelescopes, which collapsed in early December. The island’s government also declared the Observatory area an “historic zone.” Via an executive order, Gov. Wanda Vazquez made reconstruction of the observatory public policy. In a ceremony at La Fortaleza, the seat of the island’s government, Vazquez said that the Puerto ...