The Magellan Telescopes are a pair of 6.5-metre-diameter (21 ft) optical telescopes located at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile. The two telescopes are named after the astronomer Walter Baade and the ...
The king refused to increase his pension for all the services he had rendered to the country. Magellan aspired to discover a new route to the Indies, but his project was also rejected by the king. He ...