NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured some fascinating images over the past three decades, but the Giant Magellan Telescope is ready to take over its reigns in the near future, right alongside the JWST. The telescope has just received a $205 million investment from its international consortium to accelerate construction, marking one of the largest funding rounds since its founding.
This investment will be used to manufacture the massive 12-story telescope structure at Ingersoll Machine Tools in Illinois, while continuing progress on the telescope’s seven primary mirrors at the University of Arizona’s Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab and building one of the world’s most advanced scientific spectrograph instruments in Texas. When complete, the Giant Magellan Telescope will boast 10x the light collecting area and 4x the spatial resolution of James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
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We are working with some of the brightest engineers and scientists at leading research institutions around the globe. The recent contributions from our investing partners in the Giant Magellan Telescope are collectively pushing the boundaries of astronomy, making the future a reality, and allowing us to answer some key science goals, including ‘Are we alone in the Universe,’” said Dr. Walter Massey, Board Chair of Giant Magellan Telescope.
