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Telescope Renderings The Giant Magellan Telescope is under construction on Las Campanas Peak at the southern edge of Chile’s Atacama Desert, one of the best locations on Earth to view the heavens.

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Primary Mirrors The Giant Magellan Telescope’s seven 8.4-meter primary mirrors are fabricated at the Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab at the University of Arizona. They are the largest mirrors in the world.

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Construction Site Follow the construction progress of the Giant Magellan Telescope on Las Campanas Peak at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile.

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Giant Magellan Telescope FAQs Answered by Experts

Your most frequently asked questions about the Giant Magellan Telescope answered by the experts that are building it. Skip ahead to the topics that interest you most:

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Weizmann Institute of Science Joins the Giant Magellan Telescope

The Giant Magellan Telescope welcomes the Weizmann Institute of Science into its international consortium, joining thirteen members from five countries.

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Major NSF grant accelerates development of the Giant Magellan Telescope

The GMTO Corporation has received a $17.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to accelerate the prototyping and testing of some of the most powerful optical and infrared technologies ever engineered.

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24 Hours of Harvard: Are We Alone in the Universe?

Chilean astronomers and researchers from the Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics at Harvard University discuss the feasibility of identifying extraterrestrial life and how the Giant Magellan Telescope will be instrumental in changing our understandings of the universe.

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