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From the ground, the next generation of aptly classified Extremely Large Telescopes, some of which are under construction, will attempt to do the same thing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

Telescopes are, in a way, time-travel machines to faraway galaxies.

From Space Scoop • Mar. 20, 2025

There are craters on the Moon and Mars named in his honor, NASA’s Magellan mission to Venus, and the twin Magellan Telescopes in Chile and the Giant Magellan Telescope currently under construction there.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 29, 2023

They carried out a pilot study of 25 objects, obtaining optical spectroscopy with the Magellan Telescopes at Las Campanas Observatory between 2018 and 2022.

From Science Daily • Dec. 15, 2023

Telescopes in space are the means for checking these shards and fragments of data that may be the spoor, the trail, of the legendary black hole.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan