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CTOnews.com, October 2 news, located in Puerto Rico, USA, the Arecibo radio telescope broke due to the aging support structure, the support tip was broken, causing the 900t signal receiver equipment to fall, and the steel cable destroyed part of the telescope surface.

After nearly three years of evaluation, the National Science Foundation of the United States recently announced that it will abandon the function of rebuilding its observatory and turn it into a science education center based on life science and computer science.

The new education center, called "Arecibo Center for Culturally Relevant and Inclusive Science Education, Computational Skills, and Community Engagement" or "Arecibo C3" for short, is expected to open in 2024, and the National Science Foundation is expected to invest a total of $5.5 million (CTOnews.com Note: about 40.15 million yuan) over the next five years.

Founded in 1963, the telescope has always been an important educational and scientific research center in Puerto Rico and a symbol of the region. The Arecibo radio telescope has created many scientific research achievements, discovered the rotation cycle of Mercury, the first pulsar, and proved the existence of a neutron star. At the same time, the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics was won by the observation of this telescope.

As an "antique" with a history of nearly 60 years, the operation of the Arecibo Telescope Observatory is becoming more and more difficult with increasing maintenance costs. After Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico hard in 2017 and slightly damaged the main reflector of Arecibo, the cable used by the observatory to hang the receiver above the main reflector accidentally broke at the end of 2020 and destroyed almost 1x3 of the reflector.

Puerto Rico had previously proposed a restoration in 2021, taking into account the fame of the Arecibo Observatory, but is now certain to become a science education centre.

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