The group behind a $1.4 billion telescope planned for Hawaii is applying for a permit to build in Spain as ongoing protests and a human blockade prevent them from starting construction on Mauna Kea, Hawaii's highest peak ...
Space Exploration
Aug 5, 2019
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Ferdinand Magellan set off from Spain 500 years ago on an epoch-making voyage to sail all the way around the globe for the first time.
Other
Aug 5, 2019
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A giant telescope planned for Hawaii's tallest mountain will enhance humanity's knowledge of the universe and bring quality, high-paying jobs, supporters said as protesters blocked construction for a second week.
Environment
Jul 26, 2019
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Construction on a giant telescope will start again next week after lengthy court battles and passionate protests from those who say building it on Hawaii's tallest mountain will desecrate land sacred to some Native Hawaiians.
Space Exploration
Jul 11, 2019
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A group of children at a Chilean school for the blind used sound and braille Tuesday to experience conditions that resemble a total solar eclipse.
Space Exploration
Jun 26, 2019
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Sometimes kids ask really simple questions – and parents have no idea what the answers are. When one of our colleagues was asked what it sounds like on the planet Uranus, she was stumped. And so were we! So we asked an ...
Space Exploration
Apr 2, 2019
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A new type of space telescope could help find life on other planets or discover other solar systems like ours, according to a report recently carried out by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering & Medicine.
Astronomy
Oct 25, 2018
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Greenland can now brag about hosting a large, operational radio telescope, with a dish measuring 12 metres in diameter.
Astronomy
Jun 14, 2018
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A key decision on where to place a $1.4 billion giant telescope has been delayed.
Space Exploration
Apr 13, 2018
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ANU will play a major role in the Taipan galaxy survey, which will for the first time measure the current expansion rate of the universe with one per cent precision.
Astronomy
Feb 1, 2018
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