The Arecibo Observatory is an observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, also known as the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center (NAIC).It is owned by the US National Science Foundation (NSF).. After two cable failures in the span of four months, Puerto Rico's most venerable astronomy facility, the Arecibo radio telescope, has collapsed in an … The massive telescope at Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory that had been deteriorating since August collapsed on Tuesday (December 1), officials said, after 57 years of astronomical discoveries. A huge, already damaged radio telescope in Puerto Rico that has played a key role in astronomical discoveries for more than half a century completely collapsed on Tuesday. Visible Image From PR east to the Windward Islands ; Looping Visible Image From PR east to the Windward Islands ; Visible Image of Leeward Islands ; Looping enhanced Infrared Image of Puerto Rico and Eastern Caribbean The telescope's 900-ton receiver platform and the Gregorian dome — a structure as tall as a four-story building that houses secondary reflectors — fell onto the northern portion of the vast reflector … ; University of Wisconsin SSEC GOES Images and Loops; Advanced Scatterometer Winds: ASCAT METOP-A | ASCAT METOP-B RAMSDIS Online - Tropical This satellite image provided by 2020 Maxar Technologies shows the damaged radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2020. amanda: the arecibo observatory in puerto rico is the second largest radio telescope in the world, and for 50 years, has discovered new details about our solar system and worlds beyond it. GOES Images of Eastern U.S. and Puerto Rico plus other places; High Resolution Satellite Images of Caribbean. This satellite image provided by 2020 Maxar Technologies shows the damaged radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2020. The 1,000-foot wide Arecibo Observatory radio telescope platform fell apart in Puerto Rico, ending an era of space exploration. Astronomers and residents of Puerto Rico mourned as an eye on the cosmos shuttered unexpectedly overnight. Links to outside sites and more satellite data: NOAA National Hurricane Center - for official forecasts and outlooks. This satellite image provided by 2020 Maxar Technologies shows the damaged radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2020. It was the second-largest telescope on the planet. The main instrument of the observatory was the Arecibo Telescope, a 305 m (1,000 ft) spherical reflector dish built into a natural sinkhole, a cable-mount steerable receiver mounted 150 m (492 … The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, in a satellite … … This satellite image provided by 2020 Maxar Technologies shows the damaged radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2020.