Say it quickly — “30-meter telescope” — and it doesn’t sound like much. But this new $2 billion instrument under construction near the summit of Mauna Kea on Hawai’i’s Big Island is a monster. Compare, for instance, the current record holder for optical telescopes, the 10.4-meter Gran Telescopio Canarias (located on Spain’s Canary Islands) which […]
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Fundraiser for the Haysmers: Longtime Local Couple Lost Home, Collections to Kilauea Eruption
A GoFundMe account has been set up to help Phil and Lunel Haysmer, former longtime Humboldt County residents who founded Eureka’s Many Hands Gallery, after their home and nearly everything they own was destroyed when a lava fission opened on their street in the Leilani Estates on the Big Island. Astra Burke, who worked for […]