{"id":576845,"date":"2026-04-28T11:14:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=576845"},"modified":"2026-04-28T11:14:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:14:04","slug":"mit-becomes-a-member-of-gmt-supertelescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/mit-becomes-a-member-of-gmt-supertelescope\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT becomes a member of GMT supertelescope"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_576846\" style=\"max-width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright vertical\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-576846 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/RPF-notas-supertelescopio-2025-11-800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/RPF-notas-supertelescopio-2025-11-800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/RPF-notas-supertelescopio-2025-11-800-250x162.jpg 250w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/RPF-notas-supertelescopio-2025-11-800-700x454.jpg 700w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/RPF-notas-supertelescopio-2025-11-800-120x78.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">GMTO Corporation<\/span>Artistic representation of the apparatus under construction in Chile<span class=\"media-credits\">GMTO Corporation<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Currently under construction in Chile, the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), of which FAPESP has been a founding partner since 2014, has gained a new partner: the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The American institution made a private donation of an undisclosed amount to the GMT, thereby becoming the 16<sup>th<\/sup> member of the international consortium managing the project. With an estimated cost of US$2.6 billion, the 25.4-meter super telescope\u2019s light-gathering area will be 10 times larger and its spatial resolution four times greater than those of the James Webb Space Telescope, currently the most advanced instrument for cosmic observations. The GMT will be capable of observing extremely old celestial objects, including the first generation of stars and galaxies, as well as exoplanets. Construction is roughly 40% complete, with US$1 billion invested to date. It is set to become operational within the next decade. Since joining the consortium, FAPESP has allocated US$50 million to the project. Researchers from the state of S\u00e3o Paulo will have access to 4% of the instrument&#8217;s observation time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIT joins GMT supertelescope under construction in Chile","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[205],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-576845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","tag-astronomy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":576850,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576845\/revisions\/576850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576845"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=576845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}