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

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

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 ...

A new telescope project called the Next-Generation Very Large Array will revolutionize radio astronomy if it gets the funding ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

A ground-level view of the 100-foot-wide gash in the reflector ... an even bigger radio telescope, the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, or FAST, but giant dishes have mostly ...

In June 2024, the Giant Magellan Telescope's enclosure passed its final design review and is now ready for construction in Chile. The 65-meter-tall enclosure will be one of the largest mechanized ...