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Big Island’s Maunakea is the front row seat to discover what’s in the universe | Big island now

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Big Island's Maunakea is the front row seat to discover what's in the universe | Big island now

First image of black hole Pwehi released on April 10, 2019. (File photo courtesy of the Event Horizon Telescope Project and Maunakea Observatories) In the spring of 2019, astronomer Doug Simons found it difficult to sleep at night after seeing the world’s first image of a black hole, taken by the international collaboration of the … Read more

Earth reaches the hottest day on record for three days in a row

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It’s time to start taking the climate crisis more seriously. On Wednesday, the global average temperature hit its highest level since records began breaking a previously broken record on Monday and Tuesday this week. The global average temperature rose to 17.23 degrees Celsius, according to the University of Maine Climate Reanalyzer, a tool widely used … Read more