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Originally Posted by Hans Tucker
A few years ago the UK drastically cut funding to Astronomy projects and facilities, although they did find money to host the Olympics. Now after fund cuts to NASA I just read that the US astronomy budget is facing unprecedented cuts with potential closures of several facilities
such as the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) and the Green Bank Radio Telescope, as well as shutting down four different telescopes at the Kitt Peak Observatory by 2017.
It is sad when two countries that have been in the fore front of Astronomy and now shutting down facilities and projects. I really hope the ESO do not follow.
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add to the list that the interferometer capability at Keck is closing - one of the main reasons for having the two big scopes just evaporated.
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/...139509093.html (check out the video)
Anyone got any comments on where ground based optical astronomy is heading in Australia?