Post by sherlew99 on Mar 25, 2016 17:19:16 GMT -6
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We just started building the largest and most powerful optical telescope ever [For now, anyway]
Kelly Dickerson
Nov. 11, 2015, 6:24 PM
Construction began Wednesday, Nov. 11 on what could become the world's largest optical telescope.
The 22-story Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), now being built in a desert atop a mountain in Chile, could peer deeper into the universe than anything humans have ever built and capture images 10 times sharper than the Hubble Space Telescope.
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If all goes according to plan, GMT will switch on in 2021 and be fully operational by 2024. Then astronomers can start observing parts of space that we've never seen before.
We just started building the largest and most powerful optical telescope ever [For now, anyway]
Kelly Dickerson
Nov. 11, 2015, 6:24 PM
Construction began Wednesday, Nov. 11 on what could become the world's largest optical telescope.
The 22-story Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), now being built in a desert atop a mountain in Chile, could peer deeper into the universe than anything humans have ever built and capture images 10 times sharper than the Hubble Space Telescope.
...
If all goes according to plan, GMT will switch on in 2021 and be fully operational by 2024. Then astronomers can start observing parts of space that we've never seen before.
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Although it won't be the biggest for long if the European Extremely Large Telescope is successfully built it definitely will be the coolest.
