Eyes on the skies / What's next?

In Arizona, the first mirror has been cast for the Giant Magellan Telescope. This huge instrument will be built at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile. Its seven mirrors, each well over eight metres across, will be arranged like the petals of a flower. And together they will capture more than four times the amount of light any current telescope can catch. The Californian Thirty Meter Telescope, planned for 2015, is more like a giant version of Keck. Hundreds of individual segments make up one enormous mirror as tall as a six-storey apartment. In Europe, plans are ready for a European Extremely Large Telescope. At 42 metres in…

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