Scientists hope that significant progress on the restoration will be made by next year, when the observatory marks its 80th anniversary. Perched spectacularly 2,000 metres up on a snowcapped peak in Ukraine’s Carpathian Mountains, the Bilyi Slon observatory has stood empty and battered by the elements for some seven decades.Abandoned only a year after it was built in what was then Poland due to the outbreak of World War II, it became a carcass of thick sandstone walls and missing windows that looked more like a ruined castle than a scientific outpost.Now, with efforts under way to raise around $1 …read more
Source: Pulse Nigeria
