The damaged astronomy site faces an uncertain future.
“I’m still very sad about the loss of Arecibo. It was a great research facility for pulsar work—and many other things—and it is basically impossible to replace for U.S. researchers,” said Scott Ransom, a staff astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, in an email to Gizmodo. Ransom’s work involves timing the flashes from pulsars, or rapidly spinning stellar remnants, to understand large-scale phenomena like the ripple of gravitational waves.
, set to open in 2023. The NSF is soliciting proposals for the education center but has not announced any plans to put more active scientific infrastructure on the site.“On the one hand, I of course think that having additional STEM education opportunities is only going to be a positive development, and so I support initiatives like this one,” said Dom Pesce, an astrophysicist at Harvard University’s Black Hole Initiative, in an email to Gizmodo.
“The Arecibo telescope was a cultural icon and an inspiration for many young scientists,” Pesce added.
“The site is still suitable for science, though, so I’m hopeful that sometime in the future that it will be used for that again,” Ransom added. “One possibility would be for several dishes for theWhat becomes of Arecibo—even what this proposed education center will look like—remains unclear.
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