<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>World’s Largest Fully Steerable Radio Telescope Risks Shut-Down</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">One year after a controversial recommendation to cancel its National
Science Foundation (NSF) funding, the Green Bank Telescope in West
Virginia, the world’s largest fully steerable radio telescope, is
searching for new partners to help support its $10-million annual
operating costs.<b> </b>In the face of these potentially
life-threatening cuts, some additional sources of revenue have been
found—but the big telescope’s future still hangs in the balance.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://spacewatchtower.blogspot.com/2013/09/worlds-largest-fully-steerable-radio.html">http://spacewatchtower.blogspot.com/2013/09/worlds-largest-fully-steerable-radio.html</a></div><div> </div><div>gaw</div><div><br>Glenn A. Walsh, Project Director,<br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13px;font-family:arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">Friends of the Zeiss < <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://buhlplanetarium.tripod.com/fotz/">http://buhlplanetarium.tripod.com/fotz/</a>
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