This particular telescope is under construction in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, one of the darkest places on Earth ...

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 ...

The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) will weight 2.4 million-pounds and may revolutionize our understanding of the universe. It uses seven giant mirrors to collect and focus the light to a point and ...

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 ...

In the future, the next big step is building a bigger telescope with better resolution. According to Close, the university plans to complete the Giant Magellan Telescope — 25 meters in size ...