Arecibo hosts the largest radio telescope in the world, filling a mountain valley in Puerto Rico. Perhaps you saw it pictured in the James Bond movie "Goldeneye".
No. Arecibo is (currently) the largest radiotelescope in the world.
it is a reflector telescope
A Cassegrain reflector
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A reflecting telescope only uses lenses in the eyepiece. Light is picked up and an image produced by using a concave parabolic mirror.
refracting
The Arecibo telescope was built between the summer of 1960 and November 1963.
The Arecibo Observatory is in the United States of America. It is in the municipality of Arecibo which is in Puerto Rico. It is a very famous radio telescope.
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Arecibo, VLA
The Arecibo radio telescope is the largest radiotelescope in the world. It is suspended in a valley in the Puerto Rican mountains.
The Arecibo radio telescope is the largest radiotelescope in the world. It is suspended in a valley in the Puerto Rican mountains.
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It i detects Radio waves.
The William E. Gordon Radio Telescope at Arecibo in Puerto Rico stays where it's at, permanently. Its 'dish' reflector is 305 meters ( 1,000 feet ) across, and it's built into a valley in the ground.
Arecibo Radio Telescope is in Puerto Rico at 18 degrees 20 minutes north, 66 degrees 45 minutes west. It's plainly visible on Google Earth, for example.
The Arecibo radio telescope is not laid out like any specific optical telescope design. It is a unique design called an "active spherical reflector" where the dish itself is spherical in shape and fixed in position. This design allows for a large collecting area and a high sensitivity to radio signals.