US administration looking to slash NASA science budget

[Robin Leadbeater]

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/04/trump-white-house-budget-proposal-eviscerates-science-funding-at-nasa/
Imagine a world without resources like ADS, NED, Horizons etc.
I also hear that the NIST Atomic Spectra Database is scheduled to go dark

Robin

[David Arditti]

European institutions including British will need to step up to fill some of these gaps. We’ve relied on the Americans too much to provide important parts of our infrastructure, in science as in other areas.

[Robin Leadbeater]

David Arditti wrote:

European institutions including British will need to step up to fill some of these gaps.

There are other important resources like this in Europe like CDS (SIMBAD etc) for example, and others which form a global “astro-ecosystem”. This is less to do with money and more to do with politics and cultural shifts in the US though of course.

• This reply was modified 19 hours, 24 minutes ago by Robin Leadbeater.

[Grant Privett]

Is there anything like JPL Horizons anywhere else?

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