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GMT Update from the AAS Meeting

Space.com interviewed Pat McCarthy and Buell Jannuzi at the winter AAS meeting and produced this update on the telescope and mirror-making timescales. First-science, with major amounts of engineering time, might happen as soon as 2023 or 2024. There is a 6 minute computer-generated video (following an advertisement), too. You can read the article HERE

Photo Credit: Giant Magellan Telescope - GMTO Corporation. Produced by Todd Mason, Mason Media Inc.

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