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Future telescope to be 10X sharper than Hubble telescope
Space.com ^
| Published August 23, 2013
| By Mike Wall
Posted on 08/23/2013 4:57:23 PM PDT by BenLurkin
An enormous mirror will be cast inside a scorching-hot furnace Saturday, marking a key milestone in the development of a future telescope that will collect more light than any instrument built to date.
The Giant Magellan Telescope mirror, the third of the seven primary mirrors planned for the observatory, will be 27 feet across and weigh 20 tons when complete.
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Once cast and polished, these seven mirrors will be arranged to function as a single mirror 80 feet in diameter, giving the $700 million GMT a resolving power 10 times greater than that of NASA's famous Hubble Space Telescope once the new instrument is up and running in northern Chile in 2020
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TOPICS: Astronomy
KEYWORDS: xplanets
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posted on
08/23/2013 4:57:23 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
08/23/2013 5:01:31 PM PDT
by
NYer
( "Run from places of sin as from the plague."--St John Climacus)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
08/23/2013 5:02:36 PM PDT
by
NYer
( "Run from places of sin as from the plague."--St John Climacus)
To: BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
It's amazing how much atmospheric disturbance can be filtered out of modern terrestrial telescopes.
I wish them all the best on the glass cast. Those things don't always go as planned.
/johnny
To: JRandomFreeper
You could really burn some ants with that thang!
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posted on
08/23/2013 5:23:41 PM PDT
by
Errant
To: JRandomFreeper
Perhaps this will be employed in a search for Obama’s birth certificate.
To: Errant
I was thinking of something nearer the Potamac. ;)
/johnny
To: House Atreides
I don't know if it can see into black holes.
/johnny
To: JRandomFreeper
lol, I like the way your think! :)
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posted on
08/23/2013 5:26:38 PM PDT
by
Errant
To: JRandomFreeper
I was close to some astronomers at U of A back in the 70's. They have been doing this stuff for a long time and are world experts. I expect success. The facilities at Chile were being established when I was hanging around Stewart.
To: JRandomFreeper
The adaptive optics are a great thing. Its so much easier and cheaper to send a guy with a ladder to fix them than launching him into space to do it.
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posted on
08/23/2013 5:29:53 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: Vince Ferrer
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posted on
08/23/2013 5:33:17 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: JRandomFreeper
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posted on
08/23/2013 5:33:20 PM PDT
by
al baby
(Hi Mom)
To: hinckley buzzard
I've seen a program on the facilities at Chile if that's the place where they add O2 to the lodging facility because the altitude is so high.
Neat stuff they are doing there.
Casting large glass pieces and annealing them is almost black magic. I've watched a program on that, too. Those guys rock.
/johnny
To: House Atreides
But remember Levin said it doesn’t matter any more - to him that is.
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posted on
08/23/2013 5:47:31 PM PDT
by
mcshot
(God bless the USA! THE GUN DEBATE WAS SETTLED IN 1791!!!)
To: BenLurkin
Since we are playing for it, I hope some stupid government douche doesn’t drop the darn thing after all the time and trouble to cast and polish it.....because after extensive investigation no one will be responsible.
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posted on
08/23/2013 6:40:29 PM PDT
by
RetiredTexasVet
(Progressives are never accountable for "unintended consequences" .... just for causing most)
To: RetiredTexasVet
Since we are playing for it, I hope some stupid government douche doesn’t drop the darn thing after all the time and trouble to cast and polish it.....because after extensive investigation no one will be responsible.
To be fair, this one got dropped before the government took delivery.
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posted on
08/23/2013 7:15:37 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
To: House Atreides
Or maybe it will be able to find a truthful word mac daddy said.
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posted on
08/23/2013 8:37:16 PM PDT
by
chiefqc
To: House Atreides
OJ will hire it first. To find the real killers.
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posted on
08/24/2013 3:45:46 AM PDT
by
Vermont Lt
(Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who will watch the watchers?)
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