How Thirty Meter Telescope works
In short: The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) is a proposal for an extremely large telescope (ELT) intended for Mauna Kea.
1. The TMT is a proposal for an extremely large telescope intended to be built on Mauna Kea, Hawai'i. 2. Astronomers considered a telescope with a light-gathering mirror larger than 20 metres in diameter. 3. This could use small segments that create one large mirror or a grouping of larger mirrors working as one unit.
Sources: Wikipedia, “Thirty Meter Telescope (Wikipedia)” (CC BY-SA 4.0). Illustrative, not to scale.
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