The Largest Telescope ever built, the Giant Magellan Telescope

In Atacama Chile they are building the giant Magellan telescope, and the giant thing is not an exaggeration, the light collecting surface of the telescope is 368 square meters, that is 1.7 times the surface of a tennis court, together with the mirrors They will collect more light than any other existing telescope, allowing humanity to unlock the secrets of the universe by providing detailed chemical analyzes of celestial objects and their origin.

The chemistry of an object located light years away can be analyzed precisely by analyzing the light that reaches us from it, the spectrum of its light is the fingerprint of the elements that compose it, this magnificent telescope is in the news now because the process has begun to craft and polish your seventh and final primary mirror.

A piece of information so that you have an idea of how complicated it is to create the mirror and the precision that is sought, knowing that it will take 4 years to manufacture it, when it is finished the telescope will be 50 million times more powerful than the human eye .

The telescope is expected to see its first light later this decade and will work to answer some of the biggest questions humanity is asking, where we come from and whether we are alone in the universe.

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