Giant Magellan Telescope to Have Four Times James Webb Resolution
The most potent telescope ever created, the Giant Magellan Telescope, has received a new $205 million financial boost that will be used to speed up construction. It will have four times the power of the James Webb Space Telescope once it is complete. The money, which will be used to build the enormous 12-story telescope building that will be housed at the Las Campinas Observatory in Chile's the Atacama Desert, is said to be one of the greatest funding rounds for the telescope since its creation. Once completed, the Giant Magellan Telescope will have four times the spatial resolution and ten times the light-collecting area of the James Webb Space Telescope (10 times the resolution of the Hubble Space Telescope). Additionally, it will be 200 times more powerful than any scientific telescope now in use. Although a specific completion date has not been specified, commissioning is anticipated to start in the late 2020s, and this most recent funding infusion will undo