A team of high school students recently presented their research at the 211th meeting of the American Astronomical Society--the largest professional meeting of astronomers in North America. Trained at the Arecibo Remote Command Center, or ARCC, located on the campus of the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College, the students' results are contributing to a global scientific effort to develop a galactic scale gravitational wave observatory.

ARCC, funded by the ...