The Giant Magellan Telescope is now 40% under construction across 36 states and on track to be operational in Chile by the early 2030s. The Giant Magellan Telescope today announced the successful ...

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 ...

With the installation of the world's biggest telescope planned in northern Chile many communities there ... as “Milky Way”, “Big Bang” or “Magellan Cloud.” Communities such as Paranal ...

His institution is one of several research organizations and universities developing the Giant Magellan Telescope, to be built in Las Campanas, Chile, by 2018. 'Eye on the sky' Bigger is better in ...

China called on Chile to approve the construction of a Chinese observatory in the country’s north and overcome US ...

This artist's rendering shows the Giant Magellan Telescope and support facilities at Las Campanas Observatory, Chile, high in the Andes Mountains. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...

and Magellan's Telescopes operate at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile. The International Astronomical Union is yet to receive a petition for the renaming of the galaxies. However, a petition ...