Gran Sasso, goodbye supernova hunting. “Polluted waters: let’s stop the tests”

It is as if a piece of the sun is about to go out. Because if today we know precisely how the star produces energy it is thanks to the Borexino experiment that is located under the Gran Sasso. From September the large sphere built by physicists in the belly of the mountain – not far in aspect to the Moon – will be sent into early retirement, dismantled and taken out of the mountain with 1,200