This 1,000 foot curved "dish" in the hills of Puerto Rico is the world's largest telescope. The Arecibo Observatory, which went into operation in...
Dr. Frank Drake, the founder of SETI , poses for a portrait next to a stained glass window with the Arecibo Message at his home in Aptos, California,...
Dr. Frank Drake, the founder of SETI , poses for a portrait at his home in Aptos, California, Friday, February 27, 2015. Dr. Drake also created the...
Dr. Frank Drake, the founder of SETI , poses for a portrait at his home in Aptos, California, Friday, February 27, 2015. Dr. Drake also created the...
The Arecibo Observatory is seen after it was hit by Hurricane Maria on September 29, 2017 in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico experienced widespread...
Public plaza stands in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, on Friday, Aug. 25, 2017. Over the years, Puerto Rico has wooed visitors and investors with beaches,...
Larry Webster and Jill Tarter watch computer screens at the radio observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. They are working on the beginning of a search...
Dr. Jill Tarter, project scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, CA, posing on platform 500 ft above the huge radio telescope dish...
The world's largest single dish radio telescope stands at the Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, on Friday, Aug. 25, 2017. Over the...
The Birth of the New World statue depicting the image of Christopher Columbus stands Arecibo, Puerto Rico, on Friday, Aug. 25, 2017. Over the...
Giant, cable-suspended receiver hangs above the 1,000-foot-wide Arecibo Radio Telescope on the morning of the beginning of the SETI survey.
The receiver of the Arecibo Radio Telescope hangs suspended by cables over the 1000' foot dish of the radio telescope below it. One of the three...
Technician Luis Heredia uses huge flat shoes to walk on the huge 20-acre dish of the Arecibo Radio Telescope without damaging the enormous...
The largest radio/telescope in the world at Arecibo Observatory located in a mountainous jungle area near San Juan, Puerto Rico. | Location: Near San...
The assembly site of the single-aperture spherical telescope "FAST" seen on July 28, 2015 in Pingtang, China. Assembly of the telescope, with a dish...
The assembly site of the single-aperture spherical telescope "FAST" seen on July 28, 2015 in Pingtang, China. Assembly of the telescope, with a dish...
The assembly site of the single-aperture spherical telescope "FAST" seen on July 28, 2015 in Pingtang, China. Assembly of the telescope, with a dish...
Berkeley student Kyle Archer, studying mechanical engineering displays a photo of the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico and Kevin Leong a...
Eric Korpela the director of SETI at Home at the Berkeley SETI research center at UC Berkeley, displays a photo of the Arecibo radio telescope one of...
View of an unidentified group of people as they pose for a photograph on an observation deck overlooking the radio telescope at the Arecibo...
View, along the support cabling, of the radio telescope's antenna at the Arecibo Observatory , Arecibo, Puerto Rico, July 1977. The device's...
The Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico is used as a location for the James Bond film 'GoldenEye', 1995.
The National Science Foundation's Arecibo Observatory, home of the world's largest single dish radio telescope, pictured March 9 is facing closure...
Arecibo, the largest radio telescope in the world located in Puerto Rico in restoration in February, 1996.