Two of the world's best-known radio observatories - the 305-metre
Arecibo dish in Puerto Rico and a widespread collection of telescopes
called the Very Long Baseline Array - face the budgetary axe.

Despite rising budgets, the astronomy division of the US National
Science Foundation realised it could not afford to continue operating
all its existing instruments while also building the new cutting-edge
telescopes requested by astronomers, division director Wayne Van
Citters said at a press conference on Friday.

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