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The telescope, with its fellow Mauna Kea resident the James Clerk Maxwell ... an upgraded Caltech Submillimeter Observatory started making maps of the sky. It was a “quantum leap in capability ...

The current Keck Observatory telescopes on Mauna Kea are some of the largest in the ... from how to recreate Pompeii’s cuisine to how to map the Polynesian expansion through genomics.

The desire to map and understand the universe reaches ... (Caleb Jones / AP) Today, there are 11 operational telescopes on Mauna Kea. Two others have ceased operations as part of planned ...

The telescope, with its fellow Mauna Kea resident the James Clerk Maxwell ... an upgraded Caltech Submillimeter Observatory started making maps of the sky. It was a “quantum leap in capability ...

On Mauna Kea, a giant new telescope poses a threat to two cultures ... The Sloan survey has been systematically creating three-dimensional maps of a large portion of the universe, data that ...

"You add it all up and Mauna Kea is arguably number one in the world as a site for locating telescopes," said Doug Simons, the director of the University of Hawaii's Institute for Astronomy.

After years of protests that halted the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) on Mauna Kea and divided communities in Hawaii, a major change in the management of the summit is underway.

The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) should not be built at Mauna Kea, they contend, raising issues of indigenous rights, sovereignty and environmental stewardship. Scientists have a different take ...

Astronomers have successfully combined three telescopes located on Mauna Kea in Hawaii to create the ... (Credits: satellite image: Google map; montage: Remo Tilanus, JAC) a much larger version ...

“It's my spiritual component trying to map out to theirs,” he says ... held plans to decommission some of the older telescopes on Mauna Kea and return the land to its natural state.

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A Mauna Kea telescope has paused operations after an attempted cyber attack threatened its computer systems on Wednesday. The telescope — known as the Gemini North ...