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Kealoha Pisciotta, a cultural practitioner and longtime activist, sits on lava rock part of the way up Mauna Kea while giving an interview on the Big Island of Hawaii, on Saturday, July 15, 2023. Over the last 50 years, astronomers have mounted 13 giant astronomical observatories on Mauna Kea's summit. In 2019, Native Hawaiians including Piscioitta staged a year-long protest over construction of an additional telescope. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

A volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island is sacred to spiritual practitioners and treasured by astronomers

By Deepa Bharath and Audrey McAvoy - Associated Press

This undated file illustration provided by Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) shows the proposed giant telescope on Mauna Kea on Hawaii's Big Island. Construction on giant telescope to start again in the third week of July 2019, after court battles over Hawaii site that some consider sacred. (TMT via AP, File)

Hawaii activists get ready for start of work on telescope

By Caleb Jones and Jennifer Sinco Kelleher - Associated Press

Big Island ‘peace park’ plan opposed by telescope protesters

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