Workers in Chile are making progress on the Extremely Large Telescope, planned as one of the most capable astronomical ...

Paranal’s facilities, however, should soon be outclassed by ESO’s under-construction $1.5-billion Extremely Large Telescope, or ELT, which boasts a light-gathering primary mirror nearly 40 ...

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The next great space telescope will study distant galaxies ... Southern Observatory completes what is called the Extremely Large Telescope on a mountaintop in Chile, with first light expected ...

The dome and skeleton of the ESO Extremely Large Telescope. Source: ESO/G.Vecchia The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), which is designed to observe ...

The telescope's primary mirror will measure about 39.3 meters (130 feet), made up of 798 pieces. It is situated in the middle of the arid Atacama Desert, considered one of the best places on Earth ...