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I just watched the board meeting of the Mauna Kea Stewardship and Oversight Authority (and you can too, here: https://www.youtube.com/@MaunaKeaSOA/streams ).

One item that caught my eye is that the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) is less dead than it seemed six months ago. The president's budget request to congress asked that funding for the TMT be cut. But the funding passed by congress included some funding and a directive to move to final design review:

"This includes $30 million for NSF to support the development of next generation astronomy facilities recommended in the most recent Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey (Astro2020). It directs NSF to immediately advance both US Extrem

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