CBS "Space Watch" Video about GMT
CBS has published a 40 second segment about the building of the Giant Magellan Telescope in Chile (you have to put up with an advertisement). The sequence includes video of the mirror and mirror polishing, of the rotating oven at the Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab, as well as computer animations of CAD-like drawings of the telescope.
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