Arecibo Observatory's Greatest Triumphs

The First Radar Maps of Venus

In 1981, Arecibo provided the first radar maps of Venus—a planet perpetually covered in clouds. The dish would provide even more detail of Venus in the following years.

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The artistic rendering shows the center of the galaxy Markarian 501, from which two powerful jets emanate. The supermassive black hole at the centre, whose existence was already known, partially bends the light from the jet behind it into a so-called Einstein ring.

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