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 ...

Clear Skies Ahead The Giant Magellan is currently under construction at our Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, one of the best places on Earth to build a telescope. Is there life on other planets in ...

Dozens of boxes holding mirrors are placed along a remote desert hill in northern Chile as workers make progress in the ...

The 6.5-meter Baade and Clay telescopes were built by Carnegie at our Las Campanas Observatory in Chile on behalf of the Magellan Project, a collaborative effort by the Carnegie, the University of ...

Sheppard used the Magellan Telescope in Chile to find the brighter of the two Neptunian moons. Collaborating with David Tholen at the University of Hawaii, Chad Trujillo at Northern Arizona ...

The tiny moon was spotted using the Magellan telescope in Chile by Scott Sheppard of Carnegie Science. He also identified two Neptunian moons, S/2002 N5, which is around 14 miles across ...

“Chile, and in particular Paranal ... world’s largest digital camera), and the under-construction Giant Magellan Telescope at the Las Campanas Observatory. The LSST Camera at the Rubin ...

Freedman was the founding leader from 2003 until 2015 of an international consortium of researchers and universities (including UChicago) to build the world’s largest telescope high in the mountains ...

We have a ten per cent share in the Giant Magellan Telescope under construction in Chile. When it’s completed, it will be the world’s most powerful telescope, with a resolution ten times better than ...