Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico fell overnight

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View: https://twitter.com/NSF/status/1333772980539691008?s=20

Completed in 1963 and stewarded by U.S. National Science Foundation since the 1970s, Arecibo Observatory has contributed to many important scientific discoveries, including the demonstration of gravitational waves from a binary pulsar, the first discovery of an extrasolar planet, composition of the ionosphere, and the characterization of the properties and orbits of a number of potentially hazardous asteroids.

The collapse was captured by a drone.

View: https://youtu.be/n7bdhkqWg6Y
 

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