The AO management team would like to cordially invite you all to participate in the "Arecibo Observatory Virtual Town Hall'’ on July 29, 2020 from 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM EDT. The meeting will open with several status updates about the observatory, then a Q&A session with all the attendees. Read More

Dr. Kristen Jones was a postdoctoral researcher at the Arecibo Observatory from September 2016 - August 2019, but her connection with AO started long before then. “I had been an REU student at the observatory 10 years before my postdoc,” Dr. Jones stated, referring to the National Science Foundation’s Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program. “Data from that project were the basis for a paper I published in 2018.” Read More

Forty-eight tons (44,000 kilograms) of material from space fall onto the Earth each year. These meteoroids experience ablation and sputtering in the atmosphere, leaving behind metal and ion deposits that form thin layers in the ionosphere. Read More

How do clouds of neutral hydrogen atoms transform into molecular clouds, the birthplaces of all stars in our galaxy? This is an unanswered question in galactic astronomy that some scientists are investigating using the Arecibo Observatory (AO).