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Astronomy's 10-year wish list: Big money, bigger telescopes and the biggest questions in science

  • Written by Chris Impey, University Distinguished Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona
Astronomy's 10-year wish list: Big money, bigger telescopes and the biggest questions in scienceThe Hubble Space Telescope was born from a previous decadal survey. What leaps forward will come from this one?NASA Johnson/Flickr, CC BY-NC

It takes expensive tools to learn about the universe, but projects like the Very Large Array for radio astronomy in New Mexico and the Chandra X-ray Observatory, which orbits Earth, have pushed scientific...

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