NASA announced in November that it will undertake an environmental impact statement (EIS) for its $50 million outrigger project, which would add several 1.8‐meter telescopes to the twin 10‐meter telescopes at the W. M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea, Hawaii. The move goes beyond what a federal judge had ordered last July and raises hopes that antagonism will begin to thaw between the astronomy community and Native Hawaiians and environmentalists who oppose further developments on the island mountain.