Back in February, we wrote an editorial chastising the National Science Foundation — a federal agency — for threatening to remove support for the Robert C. Byrd telescope at Green Bank by 2017.

The feds provide as much as $10 million a year to keep the operation going at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. But they apparently don’t feel the cost is worth it despite the recent accomplishments by scientists using the big dish.

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