Decision due on giant telescope

Ribbon cut on astronomy giant Alma

Giant telescope up and running in Chile's Atacama Desert

bbci.co.uk (3 months and 7 days ago)

Hawaii land board approves construction of world's largest telescope

The decision clears the way for the group managing the Thirty Meter Telescope project to negotiate a sublease for land with the University of Hawaii.

nj.com (2 months and 8 days ago)

Hawaii land board approves Thirty Meter Telescope

HONOLULU — A plan by California and Canadian universities to build the world's largest telescope at the summit of Hawaii's Mauna Kea volcano won approval from the state Board of Land and Natural Resources on Friday.The decision clears the way for the group managing the Thirty Meter Telescope project to negotiate a sublease for land with the University of Hawaii.

bostonherald.com (2 months and 8 days ago)

Science fiction becomes science reality as Chile unveils $1.4bn ALMA telescope

Science fiction became science reality today when a giant telescope imagined in a novel by one of Britain's greatest astronomers 40 years ago was officially unveiled high in the Andes mountains of Chile.

independent.co.uk (3 months and 8 days ago)

6 Early Hits From Giant ALMA Telescope Prove It's Just Getting Started

popsci.com (3 months and 1 day ago)

World's largest optical telescope gets construction approval

The world’s largest optical telescope got the go ahead last Friday when the Hawaiian Board of Land and Natural Resources (BLNR) granted a building and operating permit for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) to be sited on a plateau of Mauna Kea on the island of Hawaii. The next-generation telescope, which uses a 30-meter (98 ft) segmented mirror promises to capture images from...

gizmag.com (2 months and 4 days ago)

New space telescope will continue search for Earth-like worlds

The Kepler space telescope has already found thousands of exoplanets orbiting other stars, and now the next space telescope to join the search has been announced.The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), a project of MIT, was selected by...

examiner.com (2 months and 11 days ago)

NASA telescope's planet-hunting days may be over

LOS ANGELES (AP) - NASA's planet-hunting telescope is broken. The Kepler spacecraft lost the second of four wheels that control the telescope's orientation in space, NASA said Wednesday. If engin...

rn-t.com (1 month and 3 days ago)

UK commits £88m to Chilean telescope 'as big as all existing ones put together'

The European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), costing more than €1bn, will capture the universe's earliest momentsBritain has committed £88m towards the construction of the world's largest telescope. The huge observatory, to be built in the Chilean Andes, will allow astronomers to capture images of the universe's earliest moments.The giant eye on the sky, known as the...

guardian.co.uk (3 months and 18 days ago)

An asteroid scanning telescope

Ed Lu and the B612 Foundation are building a telescope that will detect asteroids barreling towards earth

cnn.com (4 months and 5 days ago)