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  • Project Scientist at the Steward Observatory and Associate Research Professor of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona
20 tons of Ohara E6 borosilicate glass being loaded onto the mold of one of the GMT’s mirrors. Ray Bertram, Steward Observatory

How do you build a mirror for one of the world’s biggest telescopes?

Buddy Martin, University of Arizona and Daewook Kim, University of Arizona

The laws of physics dictate that to pick out ever fainter objects from space and see them more sharply, we’re going to need a bigger telescope. And that means we need massive mirrors.

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