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VIDEO / The gigantic Arecibo radio telescope suddenly collapsed unexpectedly. Expert: “It’s an absolute disaster”

[ad_1] “The platform crashed unexpectedly,” said Rob Margetta, a spokesperson for the American National Science Foundation, which funds the observatory. Two cables supporting the 900-tonne telescopic instruments on a platform above the 305-meter-diameter dish broke on August 10 and November 6, respectively, for an unknown reason. The fallen cables pierced …

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Arecibo telescope collapses before disassembly

[ad_1] In a conversation with Caracol Radio, Bogota-based astrophysicist and researcher Juan Diego Soler, of the Max Planck Institute of Astronomy, Germany, said this is another tragedy for Puerto Rico, which has been devastated by the passage Hurricane María, in 2017, which began to ruin the main dish of the …

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