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February 24, 2017

Giant Magellan Telescope

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The James Webb Space Telescope will be big, and it will have the major advantage of operating beyond the Earth's atmosphere, but astronomers are coming up with some incredible ways to make our telescopes on the ground ever more sensitive.
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.

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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

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