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Three scientists on what we learned from the Arecibo radio telescope – The Conversation UK
The Arecibo radio telescope has collapsed but its amazing discoveries will live on.
Astronomers are mourning the loss of the worlds second largest radio telescope in Puerto Rico. The US National Science Foundation said the Arecibo telescopes 900-tonne instrument platform fell onto a reflector dish some 450ft (137 metres) below just weeks after it was announced that the telescope would be dismantled due to safety fears.
It was a sad and dramatic end for this magnificent telescope (once famously scaled by James Bond) which was the largest in the world until 2019. It has given so…
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