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	The Carnegie Observatories - Home
		The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT)—the product of more than a century of astronomical research and telescope-building by some of the world’s leading research institutions—will open a new window on the universe for the 21st century.
		The twin 6.5-meter Magellan telescopes are widely considered to be the best natural imaging telescopes in the world.
		The telescopes are located at Carnegie's Las Campanas Observatory, high in the southern reaches of Chile's Atacama Desert.
	www.ociw.edu (452 words)

	Giant Magellan Telescope - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Giant Magellan Telescope is a ground-based telescope planned for completion in 2016.
		The telescope is expected to have over four times the light-gathering ability of existing instruments.
		The telescope is planned to be constructed in northern Chile.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Giant_Magellan_Telescope (250 words)

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		The Giant Magellan Telescope differs from other telescopes in that it is made up of seven mirrors, each mirror 27.8 feet across, with six outer mirrors surrounding the seventh in the middle(Stiles, 2005).
		It is necessary though, to create the telescope in seven different pieces because trying to create a seventy foot wide mirror is not only next to impossible, but even more of a financial burden then the half a billion dollar project the Giant Magellan Telescope has turned out to be (Overbye, 2005).
		The telescope itself comes as a big gamble, until it is completed, no one can know if the finicky parabolic shape of the mirrors needed to work will be correct, and whether all these grand predictions of the telescope’s success and usefulness will come true.
	www.lpl.arizona.edu /undergrad/classes/fall2005/Lauretta_102-14/SciAZ/GiantMagTel.htm (2281 words)

	News in Science - Biggest telescope mirror on its way - 28/07/2005
		Some 20 tonnes of glass for one of the 8.4 metre wide mirrors of the Giant Magellan Telescope was recently placed in a spinning furnace at the University of Arizona to melt and mould the glass into what will eventually be a gently curved mirror.
		The telescope is expected to be housed on a mountaintop in Chile and be operating by 2016.
		The telescope is being built by the Carnegie Observatories, Harvard University, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, University of Arizona, University of Michigan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Texas at Austin, and Texas A&M University.
	www.abc.net.au /science/news/stories/s1424845.htm (524 words)

	The New Planet Machine - - science news articles online technology magazine articles The New Planet Machine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Plans call for the Giant Magellan Telescope, which is scheduled for completion in 2016, to be housed in a 213-foot-tall rotating enclosure.
		The Giant Magellan Telescope may be able to detect Earth-size planets around a nearby star and may even be able to identify the traces of living chemistry in exoplanet atmospheres.
		At the other end of the cosmic ecosystem, the new telescope could help clear up a mystery created by the most surprising discovery made by the current generation of telescopes: the fact that the universe is not merely expanding but accelerating, propelled by a mysterious phenomenon that, in their ignorance, astronomers have dubbed dark energy.
	www.discover.com /issues/feb-06/cover (1634 words)

	The Carnegie Observatories - Magellan Telescopes
		The 6.5-meter Baade and Clay telescopes were built by the Carnegie Institution of Washington at its Las Campanas Observatory in Chile on behalf of the Magellan Project, a collaborative effort by the Carnegie Institution, University of Arizona, Harvard University, University of Michigan, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
		The Magellan main mirrors are f/1.25 paraboloids and a radical departure from the nearly solid-glass mirrors of the past.
		The Magellan telescopes began operations in the early part of this decade and have already contributed new data and insights to a wide range of topics in astronomy, cosmology, and astrophysics.
	www.ociw.edu /Magellan (552 words)

	The seven-eyed giant - Deccan Herald - Internet Edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The size of a telescope is generally referred to the size of its mirror.
		The era of large sized terrestrial telescopes began in the first decade of the 20th century with the installation of a 60-inch telescope on Mount Wilson near Pasadena.
		This was dwarfed by a series of larger telescopes like the Keck Telescope with a compound mirror of 394 inches atop a dormant volcano in Hawaii, European Southern Observatory's VLT (very large telescope) in Chili and Subaru, the Japanese one with a mirror size of 327 inches, all in the 1990s.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/apr252006/snt1541362006424.asp (747 words)

	News in Science - Australia joins giant telescope team - 20/04/2006
		The new telescope is to be built in Chile and will consist of six mirrors surrounding a central mirror, with each mirror 8.4 metres across.
		She says the Giant Magellan Telescope will be the first telescope to directly detect light from planets that are just forming around other stars.
		Partnership in the new telescope will give Australian astronomers access to an Extremely Large Telescope, which, according to the decadal plan for astronomy, is one of the two items Australian astronomers say are the most important to their future a decade from now.
	www.abc.net.au /science/news/stories/s1619267.htm (565 words)

	Astronomers pursue parabolic perfection \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		One camera was focused on a set of marks on the furnace wall – not unlike the ones on a child's closet door – used to gauge the level of the molten glass inside.
		The Giant Magellan, as it is called, would be twice the size of anything now operating on Earth or in space, and four times as powerful.
		Astronomers say Giant Magellan, augmented with so-called adaptive optics that reduce the blurring from the atmosphere, would be an invaluable tool, among other things, for hunting and studying planets around other stars.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050830/news_1n30telescop.html (942 words)

	UA mirror lab to cast first mirror for giant Magellan telescope
		The eight partners in the GMT project consortium are the Carnegie Observatories, the University of Arizona, Harvard University, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, University of Michigan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Texas at Austin, and Texas A & M University.
		The GMT, scheduled for completion in 2016, will be able to probe the secrets of planets that have formed around other stars in the Milky Way, peer back in time toward the Big Bang with unprecedented clarity, delve into the nature of dark matter and dark energy, and explore the formation of fl holes.
		The GMT capitalizes on the technology base that UA Steward Observatory and collaborating institutions have developed for a series of current-generation large telescopes: the MMT in southern Arizona, twin Magellan telescopes in Chile, and the Large Binocular Telescope on Mount Graham, Ariz.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2004-12/uoa-uml121304.php (848 words)

	UH -Top Education Stories - With billionaire's help, A&M and UT hope to see planets in a big, new way
		The third largest is at the Hobby-Eberly Telescope at McDonald Observatory in the Davis Mountains of West Texas.
		Already, two 20-foot Magellan telescopes are in Chile, where air flow over the mountains is relatively stable, decreasing distortion when astronomers try to peer beyond Earth's atmosphere.
		The Giant Magellan project is "a wish, a scheme, a plan, a plot, if you will, to build on the success of the (current) Magellan telescopes," said David Lambert, director of the McDonald Observatory.
	www.uh.edu /ednews/2004/hc/200408/20040805telescope.html (744 words)

	First Mirror for Giant Telescope to be Cast \| Texas A&M University, College of Science
		The mirrors for the GMT will be made using the existing infrastructure at Steward that made the 6.5-meter Magellan mirrors and the 8.4-meter Large Binocular Telescope mirrors on Mount Graham.
		The new telescope will be composed of seven, 8.4-meter primary mirrors, arranged in a floral pattern to produce a telescope with a 21.4-meter aperture.
		The telescope primary mirror will have a diameter of 83 feet (25.4 meters) with more than 4.5 times the collecting area of any current optical telescope.
	www.science.tamu.edu /story3.asp?storyID=446 (543 words)

	UA looks into space (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The seven-mirror telescope, being built under the bleachers of the Wildcats football stadium, is expected to be the largest, most advanced and accurate in the world.
		Discoveries made by the telescope could attract more young people to technical careers, which the United States desperately needs to remain globally competitive, said Patrick McCarthy, an astronomer with the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, D.C. UA students will be able to use the Giant Magellan for research.
		It is there, during the summer, that the mirror lab team completed the casting of the glass for the initial Giant Magellan mirror.
	www.azcentral.com /arizonarepublic/news/articles/1211Magellan11.html (1122 words)

	UH -Top Education Stories - A&M shows lofty goals with telescope project
		The Giant Magellan Telescope in South America will allow astronomers to peer deeper into space and possibly discover new stars and planets, according to the partnership, which also includes the University of Texas.
		The Giant Magellan will have 12 times the light-gathering power of the world’s strongest telescopes and 10 times the resolution of the Hubble Space Telescope.
		When the telescope becomes operational, it instantly will become the most effective tool in the world for astronomers seeking clues to the formation of the universe, planners said.
	www.uh.edu /ednews/2004/bcseagle/200406/20040628telescope.html (1089 words)

	MENAFN - Middle East North Africa . Financial Network News: The Giant Magellan Telescope (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		GMT builds on the successful heritage of the two 6.5-metre Magellan telescopes, the first of which began operating in early 2001.
		The GMT will be built at the same location as the existing Magellan telescopes — Las Campanas, northern Chile, where the viewing conditions are among the best in the world.
		When complete, GMT will be part of the world's largest observatory, containing a primary mirror 25.4-metre across with a collecting power of at least 4.5 times that of any existing telescope on earth.
	www.menafn.com /qn_news_story_s.asp?StoryId=119969 (637 words)

	Universe Today - Work Begins on Magellan Giant Telescope
		The GMT is scheduled to be completed in 2016, in a remote location in Northern Chile, which has some of the best viewing conditions in the world.
		The Magellan telescopes have proven to be the best natural imaging telescopes on the ground, due in large part to the genius of its Project Scientist, Carnegie Observatories’ Stephen Shectman, and Roger Angel and his team at the Steward Mirror Lab,” she continued.
		The mirrors for the GMT will be made using the existing infrastructure at Steward that made the 6.5-meter Magellan mirrors and the 8.4-meter Large Binocular Telescope mirrors on Mt. Graham.
	www.universetoday.com /am/publish/work_begins_mgto.html?13122004 (656 words)

	Giant telescope will keep an eye on planets in other solar systems - MIT News Office
		MIT astrophysicists and their colleagues are excited about the latest milestone toward developing a giant telescope that among other things will allow direct observations of planets orbiting stars in solar systems beyond ours.
		The telescope will have a diameter of about 25.4 meters or 83 feet--making it about as wide as an eight-story building is tall.
		The 83-foot giant telescope is as wide as an eight-story building is tall.
	web.mit.edu /newsoffice/2004/telescope.html (401 words)

	ANU - MAC - MEDIA - MEDIA RELEASES - 2006 - APRIL - 190406GMT
		The Giant Magellan Telescope, or GMT, is in the preliminary planning stage and is likely to be one of the first of a small number of next generation Extremely Large Telescopes (ELTs) due to come on-line in the next two decades.
		The GMT will detect and study planets around other suns, probe the dark matter and dark energy that controls the expansion and development of the cosmos, and unlock the secrets of star and planet formation.
		The primary mirror of the Giant Magellan Telescope will be composed of six segments, each 8.4 metres in diameter surrounding a seventh central mirror of the same size.
	info.anu.edu.au /mac/Media/Media_Releases/_2006/_April/_190406gmt.asp (715 words)

	Texas A&M, UT Join in Celebrating Magellan Telescope Milestone \| Texas A&M University, College of Science
		Along with their other five partners, the two flagship universities are celebrating the casting of the first of seven mirrors for the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) on Saturday, July 23.
		The Giant Magellan Telescope consortium includes The University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M University, the Carnegie Observatories, Harvard University, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, the University of Arizona, the University of Michigan and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
		The new Giant Magellan Telescope will be the world's largest optical scope when it is completed in 2016.
	www.science.tamu.edu /story3.asp?storyID=475 (694 words)

	Giant Magellan Telescope Group Gains New Partner
		âThe addition of the Australian National University to the GMT consortium is the most recent indication of the momentum that the project is generating,â said Wendy Freedman, chair of the GMT board and the Crawford H. Greenewalt director of the Carnegie Observatories.
		The mirrors for the giant telescope are being made using the existing infrastructure at the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory Mirror Laboratory.
		The GMT is designed to work in tandem with the future generation of planned ground- and space-based telescopes.
	www.as.arizona.edu:8080 /Astro/1145401357/index_html (587 words)

	[79.02] The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) is a joint project of a consortium of universities and research institutions to build and operate a 21.5-m equivalent aperture astronomical telescope for use at visible and IR wavelengths.
		The telescope is designed around a fast, f/0.7 primary mirror that results in a compact and stiff mount structure.
		GMT will be located in Northern Chile and site testing is currently underway at Las Campanas Observatory.
	www.aas.org /publications/baas/v36n5/aas205/113.htm (190 words)

	ANU Joins Giant Magellan Telescope Group
		The lab built the 6.5-meter Magellan telescope mirrors for Carnegie's Las Campanas Observatory, and the 8.4-meter Large Binocular Telescope mirrors on Mount Graham in Safford, Ariz.
		The GMT is designed to work in tandem with the future generation of planned ground- and space-based telescopes.
		"The addition of the Australian National University to the GMT consortium is the most recent indication of the momentum that the project is generating," said Wendy Freedman, chair of the GMT board and director of the Carnegie Institution's observatories.
	www.spacedaily.com /reports/ANU_Joins_Giant_Magellan_Telescope_Group.html (597 words)

	UA Set to Cast First Mirror for World's Largest Telescope in July (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The completed GMT telescope primary mirror will consist of six 8.4-meter off-axis mirrors surrounding a seventh, on-axis central mirror.
		The GMT mirror will spin 5 times a minute, slower than the two 8.4-meter mirrors the Lab made for the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT), because the off-axis GMT mirror is to be a shallower, longer focal-length mirror than the symmetric LBT primaries.
		The Giant Magellan Telescope consortium currently includes the Carnegie Observatories, Harvard University, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, University of Arizona, University of Michigan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Texas at Austin, and Texas A & M University.
	uanews.org /cgi-bin/WebObjects/UANews.woa/6/wa/SRStoryDetails?ArticleID=11355 (1039 words)

	Development underway on next-generation ground-based telescope
		The proposed Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) is an effort by a consortium of universities and research institutions to fill this need.
		The GMT, shown in Figure 1, is designed with a primary mirror that consists of seven 8.4m circular segments in an altitude-azimuth mount.
		The first—a nearly-completed 1/5 scale model of a GMT segment—is being finished with the same polishing techniques and metrology that will be used for the real segments, but without the tight radius of curvature tolerance.
	newsroom.spie.org /x3843.xml (850 words)

	City News Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Dubbed the most sophisticated and powerful telescope in the world, the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) is currently in the preliminary planning stage.
		Expected to be completed in 2016 at a site in northern Chile, the 18-storey telescope will be able to detect and study planets around other suns, probe the dark matter and dark energy that controls the expansion of the cosmos, and unlock the secrets of star and planet formation.
		"The Giant Magellan is one of several international projects ANU will be conducting with overseas partners to solve some of the biggest questions facing humankind," Professor Chubb said.
	www.citynews.com.au /news/Article.asp?id=4635 (482 words)

	US to spin out giant mirror - optics.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Progress continues on the Giant Magellan Telescope with the rotary casting of an 8.4 m mirror.
		The GMT’s primary mirror design features of a ring of six 8.4 m off-axis mirrors and a central on-axis mirror to give astronomers 10 times the resolution of the Hubble Space Telescope.
		The GMT, which will be located in northern Chile, is due to be ready for operation in 2016.
	optics.org /articles/news/11/7/3/1?rss=2.0 (424 words)

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