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 ...

Unlike planets, most stars are visible from great distances ... With an 80-foot-diameter mirror, a new Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) will have the resolution needed to photograph young Earth ...

Initial observations of these systems predate the age of great geographical discoveries ... and lunar crater named after him, and Magellan's Telescopes operate at the Las Campanas Observatory ...