17 Tonnes of Spinning Glass: Making the World's Largest Telescope

Published on January 6, 2018
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Captions provided by CCTubes – Captioning the Internet! This week’s guest video comes from Active Galactic Videos: go subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/ActiveGalacticVideos/ They got to walk on the dish of a telescope: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lfXsN45088

At the Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab, under the football stadium of the University of Arizona, there’s an enormous rotating furnace, keeping tonnes of glass heated as it forms the mirrors for the Giant Magellan Telescope. Here’s a look inside!

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