La Palma will not host the Thirty Meter Telescope, according to Spanish outlets including RTVE.es, EL PAÍS, ABC and Radio Televisión Canaria. The Canary Island has been ruled out as the installation site for the observatory, which the reporting describes as the largest of its kind planned for the northern hemisphere.
The decision closes a contest that, according to Eldía, stretched across roughly ten years of back-and-forth over the project. Coverage from multiple Spanish newsrooms on Friday treated the outcome as final for the island's candidacy, with ABC framing it as La Palma saying goodbye to the telescope.
The Thirty Meter Telescope takes its name from the diameter of its primary mirror. Its name and scale are the main details carried in the reporting; the outlets did not, in the material available, set out the reasons behind the rejection or name an alternative site.
What happens next is the question the coverage leaves open: where the project will now be built, and how the organizations behind it will proceed after La Palma's decade-long effort came to an end.