For 57 years, a 305-metre antenna nestled in a natural depression in Puerto Rico scrutinized the universe. It was not a spectacular natural phenomenon that destroyed it, but the progressive wear and tear of its support cables that ceded one after the other in 2020, depriving the scientific community of its most precise tool for the study of pulsars and planetary defense. More
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For 57 years, a 305-metre antenna nestled in a natural depression in Puerto Rico scrutinized the universe. It was not a spectacular natural phenomenon that destroyed it, but the progressive wear and tear of its support cables that ceded one after the other in 2020, depriving the scientific community of its most precise tool for the study of pulsars and planetary defense. More