The Giant Magellan Telescope offers sharper images, efficient light use, and the ability to find Earth-like planets.

The first telescope on Las Campanas, a one-meter-wide reflector called the Swope Telescope ... This was the future home of the Giant Magellan Telescope. I asked Dr. Mulchaey what it would do ...

News was taken on a special tour of the Green Bank Telescope, the largest fullY-steerable radio telescope in the world.

The Arecibo Observatory's giant radio telescope in Puerto Rico suffered ... a set of cables holding the main platform over the reflector dish. Gradually, the zinc lost its grip and allowed several ...

And though the Giant Magellan Telescope is still years away from ... lab capable of making the GMT’s seven 8.4-meter-wide main reflector mirrors, but the UA scientists had to develop a process ...

"Because it's awesome" might very well be one of the reasons scientists want to build a giant telescope on the moon, and they wouldn't be wrong; it absolutely would be awesome. Fortunately ...

In a major milestone for a decades-long project, the Giant Magellan Telescope project recently passed its final design review, locking in the design for the telescope enclosure and paving the way ...

PASADENA, Calif., June 13, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Giant Magellan Telescope and IDOM today announced that the telescope’s enclosure, set to be one of the world’s largest astronomical ...

The Giant Magellan Telescope will be built on a mountaintop in Chile’s Atacama Desert, a region that is home to many telescopes thanks to its clear skies, dry air and minimal ambient light ...

In contrast, the Webb telescope is functionally a giant reflector open to space with no protective sheath. Yet aside from being smaller overall, the other reason Hubble has been remarkably free ...

What does the discovery of a binary pulsar in 1974, the discovery of the first exoplanets, and the most powerful message humans have ever sent out into space all have in common? They all happened ...