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NSF Delays Funding for Giant Telescopes Until Early 2020s According to a statement released by the US National Science Foundation (NSF), it would appear that the organization does not plan to support the construction of either the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) or the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) until at least the early 2020s. These observatories are two competing projec...	4 January 2012 05:45 GMT

Thirty Meter Telescope Will Be Built on Mauna Kea Officials at the University of Hawaii announce that they received late last week the necessary permit to construct a $1.3 billion space observatory on the summit of Mauna Kea, on Hawaii's Big Island. The volcano has been dormant for many years, and so the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR), operated...	2 March 2011 03:25 GMT

Enormous Telescope to Be Completed Soon The volcanic dome of Mauna Kea, in Hawaii, has been recognized for many years as one of the most suited locations for building ground-based telescopes. Its unique vantage point allows telescopes built here to make out details of the Universe that can only be seen from only a handful of other places around the world. ...	17 November 2009 18:41 GMT

New, 30-Meter Telescope to Be Built in Hawaii A venture between two American universities and a group of Canadian ones will result in one of the largest and most powerful ground-based telescopes in the world by 2018. At a project diameter of 30 meters (98.5 feet), the mammoth telescope will be constructed atop Mauna Kea, in the US island of Hawaii. This location...	22 July 2009 04:42 GMT

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