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PASADENA, Calif. — After careful evaluation and comparison between two outstanding candidate sites–Mauna Kea in Hawai’i and Cerro Armazones in Chile–the board of directors of the TMT Observatory ...
Scientists are reflecting on lessons learned with the completion of removal this summer of the Caltech telescope from the summit of Mauna Kea after dec­ades of mounting tension with Native Hawaiians.
The Hoku Kea Observatory, the University of Hawaii’s educational telescope on Mauna Kea, is no more. The telescope was the first of five Mauna Kea observatories slated for removal as part of the ...
HONOLULU -- A plan by California and Canadian universities to build the world's largest telescope at the summit of Hawaii's Mauna Kea volcano won approval from the state Board of Land and Natural ...
MAUNA KEA, Hawaii (Island News) -- The decommissioning of the Caltech Telescope on Mauna Kea is making progress. The telescope dome and other buildings have been removed, but work was delayed last ...
CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / 2019 The National Science Founda-tion’s proposed funding of the Thirty Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea is on hold pending further environmental review. Above, police officers stand ...
MAUNA KEA, Hawaiʻi (Island News) -- The University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy has set into motion the decommissioning process for a university-owned telescope atop Mauna Kea. UH’s UKIRT ...
After decades of mounting tension between scientists and Native Hawaiians, Caltech has completed its removal of a telescope from the summit of Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano that is revered by the ...
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a ... Chinese satellite? A camera at a telescope on Mauna Kea captured a fiery object moving over Hawaii skies on Feb. 9. The Subaru-Asahi ...
HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii officials voted to impose an emergency rule to restrict access to Mauna Kea after protesters blocked construction of a giant telescope. The Board of Land and Natural Resources ...
At noon on Sunday, paddlers across the state took to the ocean to show solidarity for the Mauna Kea movement. The coordinated statewide paddle-out known as “He’e Nalu No Ka Mauna” drew more than 350 ...
Hawaii's Supreme Court makes a controversial decision to approve a telescope. Hawaii’s Supreme Court made a controversial decision on a long-debated issue by voting in favor of continuing the ...