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Detailed explanation-1: -The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) is an international project being funded by scientific organizations of Canada, China, India, Japan and USA. The project expected to start construction on Mauna Kea, Hawaii in 2015.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 2009, the Thirty Meter Telescope International Observatory (TIO) selected Maunakea, on Hawaiʻi Island, as the preferred site to build and operate TMT after a rigorous five-year campaign that spanned the globe.

Detailed explanation-3: -The saga of the TMT began in 2003, when a nonprofit partnership formed between two universities in California and counterparts in Japan, China, India and Canada. Now called TMT International Observatory, the group set out to design a telescope with such a massive observing mirror that it would change science forever.

Detailed explanation-4: -Roger Penrose and Prof. Reinhard Genzel for which they shared the Nobel prize in physics, Prof. Ghez was deeply involved in the development of the related instrumentation and possible science prospects for the TMT, the next-generation observatory.

Detailed explanation-5: -TMT (Thirty Meter Telescope) is a next generation optical-infrared extremely large telescope with an aperture of 30 meters currently under development. Construction is proceeding through international collaboration between Japan, the United States, Canada, China, and India.