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Hawaii Board Delays Decision on Location for Giant Telescope

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A key decision on whether to place a $1.4 billion telescope in Hawaii to further astronomy research has been delayed, leaving open the possibility the project may be moved to Spain, a panel said Friday. The board of governors for the project dubbed the Thirty Meter Telescope International Observatory still wants to build the telescope on its preferred site of Mauna Kea, a mountain in Hawaii. But an alternative location in Spain's Canary Islands remains under consideration, the...

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