The Day the Sky Fell: Arecibo’s 57-Year Legacy Ends in a Collapse
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The 2020 collapse of the Arecibo Observatory’s 1,000-foot dish after main cables failed marked the end of 57 years of discoveries; the NSF elected not to rebuild and redirected the site to a STEM education center (Arecibo C3), preserving the heritage while repurposing the valley for education.
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