A colleague of mine suggested the article may have been written by AI; I think that has some validity, but whether it was an intern or AI, it shows they have a long way to go, and why would Hawaii News Now publish such a thing without checking?
The only remotely accurate part of the story is that a very old star has been discovered very close to the black hole at the center of the Galaxy. This star had to have migrated there because tidal forces caused by the black hole subdues nearby star formation, but this star is so old it had to have come from a great distance, much farther than any of the other nearby stars. A collision between galaxies is an obvious answer to the question of where it came from, and we know these occur and have occurred with our own Galaxy in the past.
The rest is drivel. This will not "confirm extra-terrestrial life", I have no idea where they got that from. There are also several laser systems on Mauna Kea and they help produce excellent image quality which helps with all sorts of observations, not just finding "far away galaxies", the latter being completely irrelevant. This article is about finding a star in our own Galaxy. And no, the lasers are not used to measure light pollution on Mauna Kea, they are used by adaptive optics systems to correct for atmospheric turbulence and create sharper and more detailed images and data.
The only remotely accurate part of the story is that a very old star has been discovered very close to the black hole at the center of the Galaxy. This star had to have migrated there because tidal forces caused by the black hole subdues nearby star formation, but this star is so old it had to have come from a great distance, much farther than any of the other nearby stars. A collision between galaxies is an obvious answer to the question of where it came from, and we know these occur and have occurred with our own Galaxy in the past.
The rest is drivel. This will not "confirm extra-terrestrial life", I have no idea where they got that from. There are also several laser systems on Mauna Kea and they help produce excellent image quality which helps with all sorts of observations, not just finding "far away galaxies", the latter being completely irrelevant. This article is about finding a star in our own Galaxy. And no, the lasers are not used to measure light pollution on Mauna Kea, they are used by adaptive optics systems to correct for atmospheric turbulence and create sharper and more detailed images and data.