A stay-at-home order from the governor of Hawaii will prevent telescopes there from taking another photo of a black hole or making other observations.
Observatories on Hawaii’s tallest mountain have shut down operations in response to the governor’s stay-at-home order aimed at preventing the spread of the coronavirus.
The shutdown of telescope operations on Mauna Kea is expected to affect more than 500 astronomers, instrument scientists, engineers, technicians and support staff who work at the Big Island summit and at observatory bases below, the Honolulu Star-AdvertiserDemocratic Gov. David Ige signed a March 23 proclamation ordering state residents to remain at their homes from March 25 through April 30. Only essential workers were exempted.
Most of the work at the Mauna Kea observatories is federally funded, so few, if any, employees are likely to be laid off or furloughed, said Doug Simons, director of Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope.Sign up for the latest news, best stories and what they mean for you, plus answers to your questions.This is the second time operations on Mauna Kea have shut down in a year. The mountain’s access road was blocked for more than five months last summer and fall as, a $2.
Last year’s shutdown interrupted hundreds of programs run by scientists from around the world and affected about 100 scientific publications that would have used data from Mauna Kea.
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