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...students, accompanied by two faculty members and several graduate students, hiked along the main crater of Kilauea, the world’s most active volcano, visited a geothermal power plant, toured the giant telescopes on Mauna Kea, and surveyed two black sand beaches...
...students heard talks every evening, had technical briefings by the U.S. Geological Survey at the Hawaii Volcano Observatory, and toured the famous Keck telescopes, which stand on the nearly 14,000-foot summit of Mauna Kea and are not open to the public. Students carried exercise workbooks during all their outings...
...turns out maybe he had some bad data. A team of astrophysicists, peering into deep space through the world?s largest single telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii, have found what they say are small variations in the "fine structure constant" - the physical constant on which all others, including Einstein?s own "c," (the speed of light) are built...
...world's most powerful research-quality telescope was the Hale, on Palomar Mountain, in California. Its mirror, 5 m (17 ft.) in diameter, focused more faint starlight than anything else on the planet. But in the past few years, the Hale has been humbled. Here on Mauna Kea alone sit the Subaru telescope (no relation to the car), with a mirror more than 8 m (27 ft.) across; the Gemini North telescope, also topping 8 m; and the kings of the mountain, the twin Keck telescopes, whose light-gathering surfaces are an astonishing 10 m--33 ft.--in diameter...
...even this remarkable technology could become obsolete--along with the giant telescopes on Mauna Kea, Chile and everywhere else--if the grandiose plans of the world's astronomers come to pass over the next couple of decades. Telescope designers are already thinking about the next generation of ground-based supergiant telescopes, devices that will range in size from 30 m (100 ft.) across to a staggering 100 m, or 330 ft.--a telescope mirror wider than the length of a football field. These will probably be scaled-up versions of the Kecks, using hundreds of individual mirrors aligned to make...