Hawaiians protest building of giant telescope
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.028326
Los Angeles Times : On Tuesday protesters delayed the groundbreaking ceremony for the proposed Thirty Meter Telescope to be built on Hawaii’s Mauna Kea. The enormous telescope will have a mirror nearly one-third the size of a football field, will be 40% larger than either of the Keck telescopes already on Mauna Kea, and will have a resolution 12 times as sharp as that of the Hubble Space Telescope. Mauna Kea is one of the best sites in the world for astronomical observation because of its low humidity, lack of cloud cover, and minimal light pollution. However, native Hawaiians consider the ground sacred and say that with 13 observation facilities already, the area has too many telescopes.
