La Palma Ruled Out as Site for Thirty Meter Telescope, Reports Say

Xia Peng

La Palma will not host the Thirty Meter Telescope, according to Spanish outlets including RTVE.es, EL PAÍS, ABC and Radio Televisión Canaria. The Canary Island has been ruled out as the installation s

The decision closes a contest that, according to Eldía, stretched across roughly ten years of back-and-forth over the project. Coverage from multiple Spanish newsrooms on Friday treated the outcome as

The Thirty Meter Telescope takes its name from the diameter of its primary mirror. Its name and scale are the main details carried in the reporting; the outlets did not, in the material available, set

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What happens next is the question the coverage leaves open: where the project will now be built, and how the organizations behind it will proceed after La Palma's decade-long effort came to an end.

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Spanish outlets report that La Palma has been rejected as the location for the Thirty Meter Telescope, ending a decade-l

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