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Cable failures endanger renowned Puerto Rico radio telescope

by Dánica Coto
| November 15, 2020 8:06 AM

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The giant, aging cables that support one of the world's largest single-dish radio telescopes are slowly unraveling in this U.S. territory, pushing an observatory renowned for its key role in astronomical discoveries to the brink of collapse.

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