31-03-2025
Mexico and the Gran Telescopio Canarias. Global collaboration for technological and scientific development
The astronomical collaboration between
URLMexico and Spain started several
decades ago. It began with individual
projects and, with the beginning of
the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC)
Project, consisting of a 10.4-meter diameter mirror,
driven forward by the Astrophysics Institute
of Canarias (IAC), the construction company
GRANTECAN and the Spanish community,
it became an international collaboration with
Mexican participation in a matter of months. At the
start, the GTC was the world’s largest telescope for
the optical and infrared spectrum reachable from
Earth. Mexican astronomy actively participates
through UNAM’s Institute of Astronomy (IA) and
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