Arecibo Telescope

The Arecibo Telescope is now destroyed by a collapse.BBC News. 

The radio telescope was a  spherical reflector dish built into a natural sinkhole at the Arecibo Observatory which was completed in November 1963. 

For more than 50 years, the Arecibo Telescope was the world's largest single-aperture telescope. In July 2016 the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) in China was put into service.

On 19 November 2020, the National Science Foundation announced that they would close and dismantle the telescope. On 1 December 2020, the telescope collapsed.

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