I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that time was “running out” in the race to build the next great optical telescope ...
The National Science Foundation takes a step (just one) toward an “extremely large telescope.” By Dennis Overbye The United States should commit $1.6 billion to building an “extremely large telescope” ...
The European Southern Observatory’s Extremely Large Telescope (ESO’s ELT) is a revolutionary ground-based telescope that will have a 39-metre main mirror and will be the largest telescope in the world ...