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A Workplace Like No Other: Making The World's Largest Telescope Mirrors

A workplace like no other: Making the world's largest telescope mirrors

July 25, 2025

Source: U of A News

Technicians loading chunks of glass onto the honeycomb casting mold — Technicians at the Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab load chunks of glass onto the honeycomb mold during fabrication of Rubin Observatory’s combined primary/tertiary mirror. The mirror measures nearly 28 feet (8.4 meters) across.

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