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 ...

The Thirty Meter Telescope International Observatory (TMT) has awarded a contract to Belgium-based telescope and space equipment developer AMOS for designing and manufacturing the tertiary mirror ...

The National Optical Astronomy Observatory is working on the development of the proposed 30-meter telescope, or TMT, a giant telescope that is to be the next generation in ground-based astronomy.

The notion of “Mālama i ka ʻāina” – to care for and respect the land – is fundamental to the values of the Kānaka Maoli. This message lies at the heart of controversy concerning the construction of ...

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What will give the 30-meter telescope its great light-collecting capability is the mirror. Instead of one giant mirror found in traditional telescopes, the 30-meter telescope project will have a ...

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HONOLULU – The National Science Foundation said Tuesday it plans to conduct a study to evaluate the environmental effects of building one of the world's largest optical telescopes on sites selected in ...

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