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Spinning furnace at the Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab Damien Jemison, Giant Magellan Telescope – GMTO Corporation Underneath the stands of the Arizona Wildcats Football Stadium, engineers of UArizona's Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab manufacture the world's largest and most lightweight telescope mirrors. At the center of the process is a giant spinning furnace, the only one of its kind.