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UChicago Commits $50M to GMT

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CHICAGO, July 23, 2010 — The University of Chicago will provide millions of dollars to the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) project, joining an effort to build the world’s largest telescope. The GMT, to be built in Chile, is set to eclipse the image quality of even the Hubble Space Telescope, as the quest continues for answers to some of the deepest mysteries of modern cosmology. The ground-based optical telescope will produce images of objects 100 times fainter than the Hubble can detect. “The University of Chicago’s department of astronomy and astrophysics is among the best astronomy and...Read full article

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    Published: July 2010
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    astronomy
    The scientific observation of celestial radiation that has reached the vicinity of Earth, and the interpretation of these observations to determine the characteristics of the extraterrestrial bodies and phenomena that have emitted the radiation.
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