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In a Big Year for Telescopes, Much Peering Into Wallets
January 14th, 2009
Washington Post

The big bang, black holes, dark matter, dark energy, extrasolar planets, brown dwarfs, quasars, pulsars, cosmic rays, the space-time continuum, galaxies and more galaxies. Do you see what Galileo...

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Planning instrumentation for the Thirty Meter Telescope
November 25th, 2008
SPIE

A next-generation astronomical facility will incorporate a segmented mirror and cameras designed to study dark energy, search for extrasolar planets, and examine the origin and evolution of the...

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E Aha 'Ia Ana 'O Maunakea? What will become of Maunakea?
November 1st, 2008
Ka Wai Ola: The Living Water of Oha
Language: English

A proposed telescope reignites discussion of the future of astronomy on the piko of Hawai‘i Island.

Mauna Kea is not for sale
October 15th, 2008
Hawaii Tribune-Herald
Language: English

Telescope discussion has economy, technology at odds.

First, scope it out
October 10th, 2008
Hawaii Tribune-Herald
Language: English

The proposal to build a new telescope on Mauna Kea has generated vitriolic controversy on our island. Good people, political candidates and organizations are forming opinions about the project...

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Environmental statement needed for $1B telescope
October 10th, 2008
Honolulu Star Bulletin
Language: English

Mauna Kea has some of the best atmospheric conditions in the world to build a proposed Thirty Meter Telescope, but a desert mountain in Chile is also in competition for the $1 billion facility,...

Le géant de l'astronomie sera construit à Hawaï ou au Chili
May 21st, 2008
Ciel & Espace
Language: French

Le TMT (thirty meter telescope), premier de la génération des télescopes géants, sera implanté soit au sommet du Mauna Kea, à Hawaï, soit sur le Cerro Armazones, dans le désert d'Atacama, au Chili.

AURA Selects David Silva as New Director of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory
March 31st, 2008
National Optical Astronomy Observatory
Language: English

Silva brings a wide variety of experience to this appointment as NOAO director, from his current duties as Observatory Scientist for the Thirty Meter Telescope project in Pasadena, CA, to past...

Eyes As Big As The Sky
March 13th, 2008
Nature
Language: English

Three teams are racing each other to bild the next generation of telescopes that would dramatically dwarf the largest on Earth today.

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In the Shadow of a Giant
February 22nd, 2008
Palomar Skies
Language: English

The TMT will have almost 36 times the light-gathering power of the Hale Telescope and will push astronomy into a new era of giant telescopes.

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