Giant Magellan Telescope Image Quality Comparison (IMAGE)
Caption
This image quality comparison is of a small patch of sky as observed from the ground through the atmosphere with the naked eye (left), as the Hubble Space Telescope would observe it (center), and a simulation of the Giant Magellan Telescope using adaptive optics to achieve diffraction limited seeing from the ground (right). When online, the GMT will achieve ten times better resolution than the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Giant Magellan Telescope - GMTO Corporation
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