Why Build LBT?

Contents:

Ground vs. Space Telescopes
Ground Telescope: Design Optimization Challenge
LBT Project as a Response to the Challenge
Examples of LBT Science from Cosmology to Planet Formation
Simulated LBT Images of Jupiter's moon Io

3D model of the final 1999 design

Detailed design from 1997

Conceptual model from 1989 by Davison

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