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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife Wendy have announced the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Observatory System, a $500 million suite of four observatories — headlined by the Lazuli Space Observatory, a 3-meter space telescope larger than Hubble — all privately funded and targeting operations by 2029. The project represents the first full-scale privately funded space observatory in history, arriving at a fraction of the cost and timeline of government missions, while sparking debate about private philanthropy's growing role in fundamental science.