This giant telescope has split the astronomy community in two

The 14,000-foot summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii is the chosen home for what will be the world's largest telescope. The proposed Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) has become the center of a raging debate among astronomers and native Hawaiians who believe the summit is sacred ground. Many have condemned the telescope, and some have pegged it as an indicator of a much larger problem in astronomy: racial disparity and colonial bias. The telescope itself, however, is going to be an incredible piece of techn...