Giant Magellan Telescope Starts Making its Final Mirror
by Brian Wang from NextBigFuture.com on (#6F3Z7)
The Giant Magellan Telescope begins the four-year process to fabricate and polish its seventh and final primary mirror, the last required to complete the telescope's 368 square meter light collecting surface. The Giant Magellan telescope will use adaptive optics to look through the atmosphere with four times the resolution of the James Webb Space Telescope. ...