Credit: Emmeline Close and Laird Close Paired with the 6.5-meter Magellan Telescope at Las Campanas ... The star is surrounded by a giant, pancake-shaped disk of gas and dust.

Dr. Rebecca Bernstein, Chief Scientist for the Giant Magellan Telescope Organization, will discuss how the Giant Magellan is being designed to achieve these extraordinary feats, the cutting-edge ...

Learn about the Giant Magellan Telescope–one of three next-generation, ground-based telescopes that are currently under construction. These “Extremely Large Telescopes” will achieve revolutionary new ...

“That giant projector filled me with a sense of awe,” says ... There, 8,000 feet above sea level in the Atacama Desert, sit the Magellan Telescopes—two of the largest reflecting telescopes in the ...