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February 24, 2017
Giant Magellan Telescope
The first way to get clear pictures of faint objects, of course, is to increase the size of the telescope, and the aperture of the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) will be a gargantuan 24.5 meters in diameter, accounting for a collecting area 80 times that of Hubble and about 15 times that of James Webb. Each of the GMT's seven mirrors will weigh a colossal 15 tons. Currently under construction in the high Atacama Desert of Chile, the Giant Magellan Telescope is expected to be completed by 2025, though operations could begin sooner with only four of the seven mirrors. Like Hubble, it will take observations in visible light. A Look At the Telescopes of the Future, and What We Will See Through Them
Posted by gerardvanderleun at February 24, 2017 6:54 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
Your Say
Yes, a proctologist's dream come true to see deeply into the great canal of creation, it's deplorables and applaudables, it's constipations and enematic forced evacuations.
Posted by: Howard Nelson at February 25, 2017 5:58 PM