Next-generation facility · Under construction

Giant Magellan Telescope

A next-generation optical and near-infrared telescope under construction at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, using seven 8.4-metre mirror segments to form a single light-collecting surface with a resolving power far beyond today's largest telescopes. One of the extremely large telescopes of the coming decade, alongside the ELT and TMT.

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›Seven 8.4-metre mirror segments forming one giant telescope

Magellan Telescopes
Adaptive Optics
Deformable Mirror
Visible light
Infrared

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Associated withMagellan Telescopes
Associated withAdaptive Optics
Associated withDeformable Mirror
Associated withVisible light
Associated withInfrared
Associated withHigh-Resolution Cross-Correlation Spectroscopy

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NSF NOIRLabNSF National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory
Ground-based optical/infrared observatory data and imagery.

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Giant Magellan Telescope

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Facilities, methods & instruments

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Giant Magellan Telescope

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Facilities, methods & instruments

Knowledge connections

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