NOIRLab image of the week

Moons and Mirrors at Cerro Tololo

Credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/H. Stockebrand

https://noirlab.edu/public/images/iotw2617a/

#NOIRLab #CerroTololo #telescopes #BlancoTelescope #astronomy #astrodon #science #Moon #mirrors #photography #astrophotography

ESO’s White Paper has arrived, analysing how to organise the major astronomical undertakings of the coming decades—ALMA, the ELT, or SKAO—from the perspective of science, but above all, of communities.

Multiple scientists who serve on an independent board established to guide the nation’s nearly $9 billion basic science funding agency were terminated from their positions Friday by #Trump.

Members of the #NationalScienceBoard, which helps govern the #NationalScienceFoundation, were dismissed in a message from the Presidential Personnel Office thanking them for their service, according to screenshots shared with The #WashingtonPost: “On behalf of President Donald J. Trump, I’m writing to inform you that your position as a member of the National Science Board is terminated, effective immediately.”

It helps guide an agency that operates #AntarcticResearch stations, #telescopes, a fleet of #researchvessels and supports basic science #research in #laboratories across the #UnitedStates.

#uspol #auspol #TrumpRegime