Astronomical changes afoot

Article Abstract:

The jointly supported Anglo-Australian Observatory in north-west New South Wales, Australia, is likely to be affected by the investment the British astronomical authorities have put into new telescopes in Chile and Hawaii. The Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) costs the UK 1.4 million pounds sterling per annum. But the new Vista telescope planned for Chile is likely to have better viewing conditions. Some scientists involved in British astronomy point out the AAT will not be as useful in the future. The AAT is a four metre telescope whilst the new Gemini telescopes are eight metres.

Management, Planning, Usage, Astronomy, Telescope, Telescopes

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UK mislays passport at the final frontier

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Policy-makers in the UK are considering whether Britain should start contributing towards the cost of the International Space Station, the first stage of which is due to be launched aboard a Russian rocket on Nov. 20, 1998. An insider describes the British space community as polarised in its attitude to the space station. Nick Flowers of the Mullard Space Science Laboratory at University College, London, argues that any British involvement in the space station would cripple budgets, but professor of physics at Manchester University Robin Marshall is frustrated by the lack of British involvement.

International aspects, Space stations

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Sweet music for bio brigade

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The UK government's comprehensive spending review has included making an additional 1.4 billion pounds sterling available for the science base in the period to 2001. The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) has gained a 12% increase in funding, amounting to an additional 52 million pounds sterling by 2001 to 2002. It is likely that the BBSRC will make increased investment in genomics research, but it will also identify other areas of research in a new strategic plan to be published in early 1999.

United Kingdom, Finance, Research

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