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

Learn about the Giant Magellan Telescope–one of three next-generation, ground-based telescopes that are currently under ...

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

Astronomers have examined infant planets orbiting a star 370 light-years away, seeing the exomoon forming disks of gas and ...

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 ...

Say hello to one of the Milky Way's neighbors! This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a scene from one of the ...

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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 ...

Credit: Emmeline Close and Laird Close Paired with the 6.5-meter Magellan Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, the instrument works as an "adaptive optics system," meaning it corrects ...

Paired with the 6.5-meter Magellan Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, the instrument works as an "adaptive optics system," meaning it corrects for turbulence in the atmosphere that ...

instrument paired with the 6.5-meter Magellan Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile. The team also observed, for the first time, changes in the brightness of the protoplanets, which ...