Mauna Kea is considered sacred to Native Hawaiians. It also happens to be ideal for space observatories. Now, a long running fight over the mountain's future may be coming to an end.

The University of Hawaii-owned UKIRT telescope will be decommissioned once all the necessary paperwork is completed.

After years of protests that halted the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) on Mauna Kea and divided communities in Hawaii, a major change in the management of the summit is underway. ...

Hawaii News Observatory telescope removed from Mauna Kea. By Star-Advertiser staff. Dec. 23, 2023 . Share on Facebook; Share on X; Share by email ...

HILO (HawaiiNewsNow) - The telescope that has been on top of Mauna Kea for nearly 50 years will be removed. On Friday, ...

Mauna Kea’s telescopes are at the forefront of discoveries about this dark energy thanks to their “exquisite image quality,” Simons said. IT’S A CULTURAL AND SPIRITUAL STRUGGLE.

Opposition to telescopes on Mauna Kea predates the TMT, said Camille Kalama, a Native Hawaiian civil rights lawyer. Protests took place in the 1960s, she said, ...

Decommissioning of 1 of 5 Mauna Kea telescopes on schedule Updated : Jan. 13, 2020 at 6:00 AM HST “The idea would be that, by the end of next year, you wouldn’t even know there was a telescope ...

University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy last week officially began the decommissioning process for the UH-owned UKIRT ...

Mauna Kea’s telescopes are at the forefront of discoveries about dark energy, Simons said. Lanakila Mangauil, a Native Hawaiian spiritual practitioner, was around 9 when he first stepped on the ...

The University of Hawaiʻi's Institute for Astronomy is beginning to decommission the UKIRT telescope on Maunakea, the ...