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NASA Knows What It Values, and Science Is Not It

Congress blocked NASA's proposed 24% science budget cut, and the headlines called it a victory. Then NASA quietly dissolved its independent scientific advisory groups. The budget fight was the distraction.

By Crash Davis · 3 min read

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800,000 Alerts in One Night Changes What Astronomy Can See

Rubin issued 800,000 sky-change alerts on its first night of operations and will scale to 7 million per night. The speed is what other telescopes cannot match. So is the threat: satellite megaconstellations could already be erasing up to half the data.

By Vera Santos · 3 min read