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Nature 410, 729 (12 April 2001) | doi:10.1038/35071247

Open Innovation Challenges

Funding battle heats up over large array

Jonathan Knight

Astronomers around the world are gearing up to fight to secure funds for a large array telescope in the Andes that would help them study how galaxies are formed.Such an instrument has been a top astronomy priority for years, and on 6 April research-agency representatives from Japan, North America and Europe met in Tokyo but promised only to try to reach agreement on its construction.