The world’s largest optical mirror was successfully installed on a support system prototype for the first time to validate ...

The Giant Magellan Telescope doesn’t seem so giant in the renderings, until you see how the mirrors are made. The telescope will require seven total mirrors each 27 feet (8.4 meters) in diameter ...

The Giant Magellan Telescope and IDOM has announced that the telescope's enclosure, set to be one of the world's largest astronomical facilities, passed its final design review and is now ready ...

The Giant Magellan Telescope today announced the successful installation of one of its completed 8.4-meter-diameter primary mirrors into a support system prototype at the University of Arizona's ...

Giant Magellan Telescope The GMT is one of several large ground-based optical telescopes in development. Situated high and dry in Chile, it will have seven primary mirror segments, each over 26 ...

Suspended by suction cups, one of the Giant Magellan Telescope's seven primary mirror segments is hoisted onto its support structure by a crane at the Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab. Inside the ...

PASADENA, Calif., Sept. 30, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Giant Magellan Telescope today announced the launch of Universo Expansivo, a new education program designed to increase accessibility in ...

World’s largest optical mirror successfully installed on support system prototype for the first time to validate telescope’s extraordinary performance. Installation of one of GMT’s 8.4-m-diameter ...

Caris Mirror Lab. TUCSON, AZ — October 15, 2024 — The Giant Magellan Telescope today announced the successful installation of one of its completed 8.4-meter-diameter primary mirrors into a ...