Excavation works have started as part of the construction for the Giant Magellan Telescope, which, true to its name, will be a massive structure in the Atacama Desert of Chile.
The Giant Magellan Telescope has been in the works for a while now, with its international backers providing approval for its funding in June 2015 and construction of one of the world's biggest telescopes starting in November of the same year.
The Giant Magellan Telescope will be 24.5 meters in diameter and will consist of seven mirrors that are each 8.4 meters long. The mirrors will be arranged in a honeycomb shape on top of a concrete platform that will be inside a rotating enclosure 63 meters tall. The massive telescope will also be high up in the Atacama Desert, at an altitude of 2,514 meters on the Las Companas peak.
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