Charles Blue has gone far since graduating from Shikellamy High School in 1983. But the assignment the former Sunbury resident is immersed in these days is out of this world.
The Mauna Kea Management Board voted unanimously to approve the plan to build the Thirty Meter Telescope on the summit of Mauna Kea on Wednesday, during a public meeting held at Hilo’s Imiloa...
It’s easy to appreciate how science and fundamental research advance engineering. What’s less obvious, however, is that the opposite is also true; engineering and innovation advance scientific...
The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) will be the most capable and advanced observatory on Earth. Maunakea, as one of the world’s premier sites for astronomy, was selected as the future home for...
Four hundred years after Galileo’s telescope revolutionized humanity’s view of the universe, a gigantic telescope is in the works that could take us to a new, deeper level of understanding.
Architects and engineers met with the Thirty Meter Telescope team Monday in Hilo in the first step toward the construction of the support buildings.
Reaction to the announcement that the Thirty Meter Telescope will be built on Mauna Kea fell along expected lines, with supporters elated and opponents disappointed.
Hawaii's cluster of telescopes on the dormant volcano of Mauna Kea will have to make room for a new big sibling. The world's largest optical telescope is designed to have nine times the collecting...
In 1609, Galileo Galilei pointed his telescope to the sky and took an unprecedented look at the universe. Four centuries later, the Big Island is poised to make the next giant leap in astronomy.
Last January, the National Science Foundation, the Thirty Meter Telescope, and DISCOVER cosponsored a panel discussion at CalTech between DISCOVER/Bad Astronomy blogger Phil Plait and four of the...
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