World’s largest telescope pauses expansion amid funding crunch. The Square Kilometer Array (SKA) has paused construction due to a lack of funds, and whether the telescope will ever reach its target ‘square kilometer’ is not clear

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03139-1

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  1. Radio astronomer here! Goes without saying, this sucks. The SKA has been in the works for over a decade now, and a pause like this could end the project indefinitely.

    Also, in before everyone sagely advising me “just build it on the far side of the moon!”- if you think we can find the funds for that when we can’t find the funds to build it on the ground, well, let’s just say that’s not a realistic solution.