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 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.
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...
Three teams are racing each other to bild the next generation of telescopes that would dramatically dwarf the largest on Earth today.
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.
A lava field on Hawaii's Big Island turns out to be a prime stargazing spot for cosmological illiterates like me.
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