Image World’s largest optical mirror successfully installed on support system prototype for the first time to validate telescope’s extraordinary performance Damien Jemison, Giant Magellan Telescope–GMTO Corporation Oct. 24, 2024 Giant Magellan Telescope Begins Primary Mirror Support System Testing Read more
Image Oct. 17, 2024 Testing begins at U of A for Giant Magellan Telescope's high-tech mirror support structure Read more
Image April 19, 2024 Fourth-Generation Technology Will Change the Future of Ground-Based Observing Read more
Image Making Giant Mirrors from Stars April 19, 2024 At 200 times more powerful than today’s best telescopes... Read more
Image The last required piece of the world's largest telescope takes shape at UArizona Oct. 10, 2023 Read more
Image Podcast: Mirrors Built Under College Football Stadium Sept. 17, 2021 In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we visit a spinning furnace tucked under the football stadium at the University of Arizona, designed to help build giant telescope mirrors. Read more
Image Mirrors for Magellan April 21, 2021 A behind-the-scenes tour of the University of Arizona’s Richard F. Caris Mirror Laboratory which leads the world in making giant, lightweight mirrors of unprecedented power for a new generation of optical telescopes. Read more
Image Spinning Glass To See The Stars March 15, 2021 Hubert Martin, Project Scientist at the Mirror Polishing Program, talks with SciFri’s Charles Bergquist about the mirror production process, and the challenges of working with glass on massive scales. Read more
Image The sixth 8.4-meter mirror is being fabricated at the University of Arizona’s Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab March 9, 2021 Timelapse for casting GMT mirror 5. Credit: Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab, The University of Arizona and Giant Magellan Telescope – GMTO Corporation Read more
Image 8.4-Meter Mirror Joins Five of the World’s Largest Mirrors March 5, 2021 The Giant Magellan Telescope’s primary mirrors are fabricated with high-purity, low-expansion, borosilicate glass (called E6 glass) from the Ohara Corporation of Japan. Read more
Image Engineering Marvel: Sixth Mirror Cast March 5, 2021 Sixth Mirror Cast for Giant Magellan Telescope Read more
Image Sixth Mirror Casting March 5, 2021 Underneath the stands of the Arizona Wildcats Football Stadium, engineers of UArizona's Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab manufacture the world's largest and most lightweight telescope mirrors. At the center of the process is a giant spinning furnace, the only one of its kind. Read more
