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Science 18 June 1999:
Vol. 284. no. 5422, p. 1915
DOI: 10.1126/science.284.5422.1915
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ASTRONOMY:
Lofty Observatory Gets Boost

Govert Schilling

The United States and Europe have breathed life into plans to build a giant new astronomical observatory in Chile that could be fully operational in 2009. Last week, science officials from both continents signed an agreement in Washington, D.C., laying out a 3-year plan for the design and development of the Atacama Large Millimeter Array, which will capture emissions from some of the coolest and most distant objects in the universe.

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