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What did we learn from the Arecibo Radio Telescope?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Biggest Telescope in the World

The telescope was built during the cold war and to detect nuclear weapons in the atmosphere. While they wanted to be in the tropics so they could see like, a larger portion of the sky. And there was also one enterprising puerto ricin grad student who advocated to put it in perto rico because he thought that would be good for pete rico and porte ricins and science.

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