Gizmodo :After nearly a decade of planning, construction of the Giant Magellan Telescope is finally underway. And boy, does it look cool.
Perched high in the mountains of northern Chile, the GMT—whose primary optics consist of 7 separate 8.4-meter (27 foot) diameter mirrors—will proudly claim the title of the largest optical scope ever built. Its mirrors will be capable of focusing more than 6 times the amount of light of the largest optical telescopes today, into images 10 times sharper than those captured by Hubble.
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