Building a towering telescope
May 21, 2020
1 minute
1 Primary mirror
The 39.3-metre (128.9-foot) primary mirror is made up of individual hexagonal segments and collects light from the sky. It reflects all of that light back towards the secondary mirror.
2 Secondary mirror
At 4.2 metres (13.8
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