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 The Giant Magellan Telescope:Scientific Research and Practical Significance

The Giant Magellan Telescope has all ready been set in stone of where its going to do its research, the Las Campanas Observatory, located in northern Chile, which is also the location of the two Magellan Telescopes, Baade and Clay. This site was picked because it is one of the astronomy places on our planet for telescopes to see the stars and more, theres barely any light pollution and the weather is pretty clear year round making this a excellent place for telescopes. Once the Giant Magellan Telescope is finished we will be able to directly view exoplanets and maybe even smaller Earth like terrains with this telescopes enormous mirrors. When the Giant Magellan Telescope is finished it will most likely open our eyes on how we view alien worlds in our milky way galaxy, and also, so much more.The Giant Magellan Telescope is going to make a huge step up in telescope technology and open the universe up for unraveling and direct imaging exoplanets like we have never been able to see them before. Other cool stuff the telescope will uncover is the study of dark matter and dark energy properties, the life spurts of stars and black holes, the death of stars and black holes, supernovae, unseen galaxies, and maybe even see light beyond the known border of our universe making the multiverse theory correct!

Over at the Stewart Observatory Mirror Lab, located under the football field of the University of Arizona, the Gignatic Telescope project is all ready started with the building of the huge 8.4 meter telescope mirrors. The telescope is set to launch in the beginning of 2017 and commissioned in late 2015 . The Giant Magellan Telescope will have about 10 times the imaging power of the renown Hubble Space Telescope. The telescope will be able to do this because the size of its seven mirrors that are 8.4 meters each. The telescope will have a centre mirror and then 6 other mirrors that are tiltable surrounding the center still telescope mirror. The first mirror was finished November 3rd, 2005, but still there is much tweaking and fine-tuning to do on this Giant Telescope. When the telescope is done it will be set inside a cylinder shaped dome to shield it from weather and undesired light. The dome the telescope will be set in will be 63 meters high and 52 meters wide. And of course will have adjustable vents for proper ventilation and all of that.

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