Despite years of legal battles and months of protests by Native Hawaiian opponents, the international coalition that wants to build the world's largest telescope in Hawaii.
When starlight from billions of years ago zips across the universe and finally comes into focus on Earth, astronomers want their telescopes to be in the best locations possible to see what's out there.
"Every once in a while at Mauna Kea, you get one of those magic nights," said University of California, Santa Cruz astronomy and astrophysics professor Michael Bolte, a Thirty Meter Telescope board member."When the air is super stable above the site, you get images that you simply couldn't get anyplace else."
To see distant planets near bright stars, astronomers use telescopes to capture infrared light that emanates from the space objects. It's a large"star shade" that would be launched far into space and positioned to block bright stars while allowing telescopes on Earth to see the planets orbiting them. The Native Hawaiian opponents call themselves"protectors" of Mauna Kea and aren't concerned about their mountain's advantages for astronomers. They just want the telescope group to abandon Hawaii.
"Depending on the kind of science you want to do, it's going to be a 10% hit to a 50% hit in speed," Bolte said."You are going to have to observe that much longer at La Palma to get the same quality data."
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