This photo of the fourth mirror for the Giant Magellan Telescope makes the cleaning and inspection of an incredible piece of engineering looks more like some dudes cleaning out their back yard.
The Giant Magellan Telescope will be an extremely large ground-based telescope situated in the Atacama Desert of Chile. It will consist of seven primary mirrors, each 27.6 feet in diameter. So far, four have already been cast at the Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab at University of Arizona—you can watch that process…
Inspecting a Giant Telescope Mirror Looks a Lot Like Cleaning Your Yard
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