Chilean technicians exploded the top off of Las Campanas Peak in the Atacama Desert to begin the construction of a telescope ten times as powerful as the Hubble on Friday morning. The event was so ...
The Giant Magellan Telescope Board of Directors has elected Dr. Taft Armandroff as chair and Dr. Brian Schmidt as vice chair — guiding the observatory through its next phase of construction. We honor ...
Underneath the University of Arizona's football stadium are the beginnings of the Giant Magellan Telescope, set to be the largest optical telescope in the world. The Richard F. Caris Mirror Laboratory ...
A giant furnace, bearing the raw glass that eventually will produce a mirror for the Giant Magellan Telescope, spins at 4.9 revolutions per minute at the UA's Steward Observatory Mirror Lab. The photo ...
There may be no enterprise that lends itself so well to the camera as space travel. The universe is a riot of color and light—of galaxies and planets and brightly hued moons. The people who explore ...
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