![]() ![]() It stored the “golden copy” of data - the original tapes, hard drives and disk drives of sky scans since the 1960s. Luckily, the data center for the Arecibo telescope was spared any long-term damage from the collapse. (Credit: TACC, CI CoE Pilot, Arecibo Observatory, EPOC) (Clockwise, upper left to right) Nathaniel Mendoza (TACC), Ewa Deelman (CI CoE Pilot), Julio Alvarado (Arecibo Observatory), Hans Addleman (EPOC), Jason Zurawski (EPOC). A few members of the team that came together to move Arecibo’s data. The 900-ton spidery-looking instrument platform snapped its gossamer-like suspension cables, which sent it crashing through the radio dish below and into the Puerto Rican countryside, destroying the giant telescope.Īstronomers worldwide keenly felt the loss of one of the world’s premier telescopes whose past achievements include discovery of the first planet found outside of our solar system and the first-ever binary pulsar, a find that tested Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity and earned its discoverers a Nobel Prize in 1993. Millions of people have seen footage of the collapse in December 2020 of the famed Arecibo radio telescope. Now, thanks to a data rescue plan led by the Texas Advanced Computing Center at The University of Texas at Austin, Arecibo’s observations will be preserved for generations of future astronomers. AUSTIN, Texas - When Puerto Rico’s famed Arecibo telescope collapsed in 2020, astronomers lost access to one of the world’s most treasured pieces of equipment – but also, potentially, decades of priceless data holding still undiscovered secrets about the universe. ![]()
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