Rise of the Super Telescopes: The Giant Magellan Telescope
Rise of the Super Telescopes: The Giant Magellan Telescope We humans have an insatiable hunger to understand the Universe. As Carl Sagan said, “Understanding is Ecstasy.” But to understand the Universe, we need better and better ways to observe it. And that means one thing: big, huge, enormous telescopes. In this series we’ll look at 6 of the world’s Super Telescopes: The Giant Magellan Telescope The Overwhelmingly Large Telescope The 30 Meter Telescope The European Extremely Large Telescope The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope The James Webb Space Telescope The Giant Magellan Telescope The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) is being built in Chile, at the LasRead More →