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University of Chicago: NSF Awards $52M to Upgrade Simons Observatory in Chile to Explore Origins of Universe
May 10, 2023
CHICAGO, Illinois, May 10 (TNSfund) -- The University of Chicago issued the following news:

The National Science Foundation has awarded $52.66 million to upgrade the Simons Observatory, a set of telescopes high in the Chilean desert that looks for traces of light from the earliest epochs of the universe.

A team led by the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University and the University of Chicago will undertake a major infrastructure upgrade to the Simons Observator . . .

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