Institutions like Carnegie Institution for Science Harvard University, the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Arizona, and the University of Chicago have invested in the Giant Magellan Space Telescope.
Said space device will use the largest mirrors in history It will feature a sophisticated scientific spectrograph instrument and will have a twelve-story structure.
The financing by the aforementioned entities will be 205 million dollars, in addition, Robert Shelton (president of the Magellan Telescope) affirms in a statement that “we are honored to receive this investment.”
“The funding will result in the manufacture of one of the largest mirrors in the world and a scientific instrument that will make it possible to study the chemical evolution of stars and planets like never before,” he adds.
The Magellan Space Telescope is being built at Carnegie’s Las Campanas Observatory (Chile), it will allow us to see space clearly and it is 200 times more powerful than current telescopes (It will have ten times the light gathering area and four times the spatial resolution of the James Webb).
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New scientific discoveries will be aided by extraordinary angular resolution, state-of-the-art spectrographs, and high-contrast cameras.
It will also search for signs of extraterrestrial life in the atmospheres of possibly habitable planets, examine the earliest galaxies that formed in the universe, and collect information to solve the puzzles of the creation of the universe dark matter and black holes.
On the other hand, future space travel will be possible, will provide the most complete views of the Universe thanks to its seven mirrors will shed light on the origins of chemical elements and cosmic dark matter puzzles and, for the first time, will confirm the presence of life on other planets.
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