The Giant Magellan Telescope, currently under construction at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, is one of a handful of “extremely large” ground-based telescopes that promise to revolutionize astrophysics. Comprised of seven individual mirrors, each 27.6 feet in diameter, the telescope will have a joint collecting area of 80 feet and the best image quality of any such instrument. The telescope’s flagship instruments, the Large Earth Finder and Near-Infrared Spectrograph, will allow astronomers to directly image planets beyond our solar system to determine if they are Earth-like and potentially habitable. The advanced adaptive optics system of the Giant Magellan Telescope features new algorithms that enable it to correct for distortion in Earth’s atmosphere. The telescope’s resolving power is four times greater than that of the James Webb Space Telescope, and in combination with the European Extremely Large Telescope and the Thirty Meter Telescope, the Giant Magellan Telescope will usher in a golden age of space and ground-based observing.
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