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Astronomers are scrambling to save the world's most powerful X-ray space telescope
NASA is facing a tight budget and wants to wrap up the Chandra X-ray Observatory, but astronomers don't want to see the 25-year-old X-ray space telescope mission go.
Supporters of the Chandra X-ray Observatory say the school bus-sized instrument is healthy and could keep doing science for another decade, but NASA recently announced a plan to slash its funding and effectively wrap up the mission. The agency’s head of astrophysics, Mark Clampin, has said that officials are facing a tough budget situation, and that hard choices have to be made to free up money to develop future telescopes, like one that will search for habitable planets that could potentially support life. toggle caption NASA/CXC & J.Vaughan NASA’s planned budget cuts would soon require laying off much of the staff that operates the telescope, meaning dozens of astronomers would be out looking for a job, according to a pressure campaign that has sprung up to try to reverse the decision.
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