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Does science have trouble seeing governments?

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From ‘Energy megaproject in Chile threatens the world’s largest telescopes’, Science, January 10, 2025: The AES project would occupy several sites totaling 3000 hectares, and the plants making hydrog…

Does science have trouble seeing governments?

5 min read
Analysis Scicomm Science carbon credits carbon trading Cerro Armazones Cerro Paranal Chile climate change European Southern Observatory Extremely Large Telescope green hydrogen renewable energy Science journal SpaceX Starlink Thirty Metre Telescope Very Large Telescope

From ‘Energy megaproject in Chile threatens the world’s largest telescopes’, Science, January 10, 2025: The AES project would occupy several sites totaling 3000 hectares, and the plants making hydrog…

A revolutionary exoplanet

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In 1992, Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail became the first astronomers to publicly announce that they had discovered the first planets outside the Solar System, orbiting the dense core of a dead st…