The TMT and the TMT's Career Opportunities

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I think that the TMT also has a lot to offer in terms of educational opportunities, career opportunities. I have lost like a friend or two thanks to all of this and some people get really emotional about it because it is emotionally charged situation. The understanding of having to work this thing out is very real because eventually we all have to live together in the same community. It has been kind of difficult.

Something strange is going on at the outer reaches of the solar system. One astronomer thinks it might be a Neptune-sized ninth planet, and he’s on a quest to find it.

That search is happening at an enormous telescope on the summit of Maunakea, a dormant Hawaiian volcano with a long astronomical and cultural history. But many Native Hawaiian scientists are asking: What’s lost in the pursuit of larger and larger telescopes?

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