The future of Arecibo Observatory (where SETI@home collects its data) is threatened.
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The future of Arecibo Observatory (where SETI@home collects its data) is threatened
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Since the announcement of Gliese 581c (the first possibly habitable extrasolar planet), we’ve been asked many times about what we have seen during our observations of this red dwarf star. Unfortunately, Gliese 581 is located just beyond the visible sky we can see at Arecibo Observatory, so we actually made no such observations.
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Since the announcement of Gliese 581c…
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Arecibo Observatory is currently shut down for three months to clean up corrosion on the telescope platform (which includes safe removal of lead paint). SETI@home will continue to operate on classic data, and we have a backlog of new multibeam data to analyze as well.
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Arecibo Observatory is currently shut down for three months to…
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Last week the new multi-beam data recorder was installed at Arecibo Observatory and has already taken some data. A science newsletter with more details is forthcoming.
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