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Arecibo Observatory will be torn down because repairs are too dangerous – Yahoo Finance Australia
After 57 years of helping to expand human knowledge and understanding of the cosmos, the story of Puerto Rico’s world-famous Arecibo Observatory is coming to…
After 57 years of helping to expand human knowledge and understanding of the cosmos, the story of Puerto Ricos world-famous Arecibo Observatory is coming to an unfortunate end. Following two cable failures in recent months, the National Science Foundation (NSF), the agency that oversees the telescope, announced on Thursday it has no choice but to decommission the structure.
The NSF commissioned multiple independent evaluations to determine how to go about repairing Arecibo. They all came to the…
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