Chile places Chinese observatory project under review

Chile places Chinese observatory project under review

Chile has put a planned Chinese astronomical observatory project under review, potentially dealing a blow to Beijing's scientific ambitions in Latin America.

The Atacama Desert in Chile offers the best conditions in the world for observing the sky. But the project to build a hydrogen plant threatens to seriously affect the observations of some of the most powerful and expensive telescopes in the world. - In Chile, a mega-hydrogen plant project threatens the most valuable astronomical observation site in the world (Sciences). TF1 INFO

By AthenaLAB's teamWhen last year came to an end, a Newsweek article on China's quest to achieve supremacy in space reported the alarm that exists among the US authorities by an observatory that builds the Asian power in northern Chile and that would be one more piece to achieve that goal[1].While it received little attention at the time, a collaboration agreement signed between the Catholic University of the North and the Observatory