"We can see, for the first time, rings of dust surrounding protoplanets made visible by the bright starlight reflecting off ...

The Giant Magellan Telescope today announced the successful installation of one of its completed 8.4-meter-diameter primary ...

The search for habitable planets has taken a leap forward with new space telescopes probing exoplanet atmospheres for life.

The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) will weight 2.4 million-pounds and may revolutionize our understanding of the universe. It uses seven giant mirrors to collect and focus the light to a point and ...

Scientists are closer than ever to uncovering universe dark matter's secrets. Advanced telescopes and cutting-edge tech push ...

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 ...

Astronomers using a cutting-edge adaptive optics instrument, MagAO-X, have captured unprecedented images of young planets ...

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Giant Magellan Telescope The GMT is one of several large ground-based optical telescopes in development. Situated high and dry in Chile, it will have seven primary mirror segments, each over 26 ...

Its primary objective was to search for dark matter using the WINERED high-dispersion spectrograph mounted on one of the Magellan telescopes in Chile. The Magellan telescopes are two optical ...

Another finding was how dramatically the planets varied in brightness over just three years. The team discovered that PDS 70 b dropped to about one-fifth of its original brightness, whereas PDS 70 c ...

The Magellan Adaptive Optics Xtreme (MagAO-X) has provided some of the clearest images ever taken of planets forming around a ...