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    Commentary: America’s ‘big glass’ dominance hangs on the fate of two powerful new telescopes

    by Eric D. Isaacs and Thomas F. Rosenbaum, Los Angeles Times Apr 29, 2024 3 minutes
    An artist’s rendering of the Thirty Meter Telescope, left, and the Giant Magellan Telescope.

    More than 100 years ago, astronomer George Ellery Hale brought our two Pasadena institutions together to build what was then the largest optical telescope in the world. The Mount Wilson Observatory changed the conception of humankind’s place in the universe and revealed the mysteries of the heavens to generations of citizens and scientists alike. Ever since then, the United States has been at the forefront of “big glass.”

    In fact, our institutions, Carnegie Science and Caltech, still help run some of the largest telescopes for visible-light astronomy ever built.

    But that legacy is being threatened

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