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Texas A&M, Other Key Institutions Partners in Building World's Largest Telescope
Plans are well underway for construction of the world's largest optical telescope, named the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT). The instrument, to be located high in the Andes Mountains of northern Chile, will be so powerful that it is expected to give perhaps the first definitive answer of whether or not there is life beyond Earth.
The GMT will be 10
times more powerful than the orbiting Hubble telescope, and is slated for completion in 2016.
Texas A&M University is one of a number of partners in the GMT project. The eight other institutions involved include Carnegie Institution of
Washington, Harvard University, the University of Arizona, the Smithsonian
Astrophysical Observatory, the University of Michigan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Australian
National University, and the University of Texas at Austin.
See the full article by Keith Randall at Texas A&M University News & Information here.