largest telescope in the world
There are many types of telescope. Among the conventional mirror telescopes, which capture light from space and shoot photos, there are many whose mirror diameter is more than 8 m. In 2007,
The world’s largest telescope became operational in Grana Canaria. Other large ones are the Vainu Bappu in Tamil Nadu (India), the Keck telescope in Hawaii (USA), and the Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona (USA), Telescopes that capture the long-wave radio waves from space are mostly shaped in the form of a dish.
Such’dishes’ can have diameters of around 300 m, such as the one in Arecibo on the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico (photo), and RATAN, with a width of 600 m, in Russia. But there is another much bigger telescope system _’Very Large Array’ in New Mexico (USA). It consists of 27 individual telescopic dishes, each measuring 25 m, which are arranged in the shape of a large ‘Y.’ The data captured by them is put together to make a single image .in this way, the telescopes from a single large antenna of the size of around 30 km.
The Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) is currently the largest telescope in the world, with a primary mirror that has a diameter of 10.4 meters (34.1 feet). The telescope is located at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on the island of La Palma, in the Canary Islands, Spain. It was built by a consortium of Spanish research institutes, with significant funding and participation from the government of the Canary Islands, Mexico and the University of Florida.
The GTC is an optical and infrared telescope, which means it can observe objects in both visible light and infrared light. It has a resolution that is equivalent to being able to distinguish between two points just 0.05 arcseconds apart. This is roughly equivalent to being able to distinguish a dime from a distance of more than 100 miles (160 km) away.
The telescope is used for a wide range of scientific research, including studying the properties of stars and galaxies, observing the formation of planetary systems, and searching for exoplanets. It is also used to study the properties of dark matter and dark energy. The GTC is open to scientists from all over the world for proposal-based observing.