Questions tagged [giant-magellan-telescope]
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Why telescope mirror glass shipped as randomly broken chunks of a constant size in cardboard boxes?
The video MIRROR LAB: Preparing for Casting GMT's Mirror 6 shows the unpacking several hundred boxes full of broken glass from OHARA, packed in styrofoam.
The glass chunks are a fairly uniform size of ...
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Claim that 30-m class telescopes will have resolution far superior to Hubble: true?
This article makes the claim that the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT, number 4 in the list) will have resolution 10 times better than that of Hubble, while the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT, number 3 in ...
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