Astronomer D. J. Pisano got to spread some good news last month. He and his colleagues at West Virginia University in Morgantown announced a US$500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The money will allow his team to build an antenna-like detector to speed up sky surveys at the Green Bank Telescope (GBT), the nearby 110-metre-wide radio dish that is the largest steerable radio telescope in the world. There is just one problem. Even as the NSF funding goes towards improving the telescope, the agency is trying to get rid of it.
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机译：天文学家D. J.皮萨诺（D. J. Pisano）上个月得传一些好消息。他和他在摩根镇的西弗吉尼亚大学的同事宣布，美国国家科学基金会（NSF）拨款50万美元。这笔钱将使他的团队能够建造一个类似天线的探测器，以加快绿色银行望远镜（GBT）的天空勘测工作。该银行附近的110米宽的射电盘是世界上最大的可操纵射电望远镜。只有一个问题。即使NSF的资金用于改善望远镜，该机构仍在努力摆脱它。
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