{"id":228967,"date":"2026-01-14T01:05:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T07:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/texas-takes-charge-of-worlds-most-powerful-telescope"},"modified":"2026-01-14T01:05:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T07:05:24","slug":"texas-takes-charge-of-worlds-most-powerful-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/texas-takes-charge-of-worlds-most-powerful-telescope","title":{"rendered":"Texas takes charge of world\u2019s most powerful telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/texas-takes-charge-of-worlds-most-powerful-telescope.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AUSTIN (KXAN) \u2014 The group building what could become the world\u2019s most powerful optical telescope, the Giant Magellan, has a new leader. The GMTO Corporation announced Tuesday that The University of Texas at Austin\u2019s Daniel T. Jaffe will serve as its new president.<\/p>\n<p>Jaffe joins fellow UT professor Taft Armandroff, who was elected in November to chair the GMTO board of directors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very excited about the chance to lead this project. I\u2019m very enthusiastic about its prospects. I think it\u2019s going to be a major breakthrough for astronomical science in the coming decades,\u201d Jaffe said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN (KXAN) \u2014 The group building what could become the world\u2019s most powerful optical telescope, the Giant Magellan, has a new leader. The GMTO Corporation announced Tuesday that The University of Texas at Austin\u2019s Daniel T. Jaffe will serve as its new president. Jaffe joins fellow UT professor Taft Armandroff, who was elected in November [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}