Incoporating some of the largest mirrors ever built, the Giant Magellan Telescope will offer incredible image quality of far-off galaxies.
, the advancement of the telescope's seven primary mirrors at the Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab at the University of Arizona, and the construction of one of the most technologically sophisticated scientific spectrograph instruments in Texas."we are honored to receive this investment in our future."
The funding was approved following the Giant Magellan Telescope's evaluation as a key partner of the United States “This investment will bring the telescope closer to first light and provide the world with transformational knowledge of our Universe. Carnegie is proud to have kickstarted the funding effort and to have worked closely with our peers,” he added.More than any previous optical telescope before, the Giant Magellan Telescope, which is being built at Carnegie's Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, will enable astronomers to see farther into space with more clarity.
Image quality comparison of a small patch of sky as the James Webb Space Telescope would observe it , and a simulation of the Giant Magellan Telescope using adaptive optics to achieve diffraction limited seeing from the ground .
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