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 ...

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

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 ...

Astronomers are raising concerns about light pollution threatening Mount Paranal, home to the world-renowned Very Large Telescope (VLT). A proposed renewable hydrogen project in Chile could jeopardise ...

Lead author and University of Toronto graduate student Steffani Grondin pictured in front of one of the Magellan Telescopes while ... Las Campanas Observatory in Chile.