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Chilean Telescope to be World's Biggest

European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT)

 Started by Waspie_Dwarf , Mar 08 2013 06:58 PM
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Posted 08 March 2013 - 06:58 PM

UK commits £88m to Chilean telescope 'as big as all existing ones put together'
The European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), costing more than €1bn, will capture the universe's earliest moments


www.guardian.co.uk said:

Britain has committed £88m towards the construction of the world's largest telescope. The huge observatory, to be built in the Chilean Andes, will allow astronomers to capture images of the universe's earliest moments.

The giant eye on the sky, known as the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), will cost more than €1bn (£900m) to build. Its main mirror, which will gather light from distant stars and galaxies, will be 39 metres in diameter, made of 798 segments. The observatory will gather 15 times more light than the largest telescopes today.

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Posted 08 March 2013 - 07:19 PM

Holy Cow! That's going to be utterly humongous, not to mention absolutely amazing.


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Posted 08 March 2013 - 07:29 PM

holy crap that is a huuuuge telescope 39 meters!!! wow.
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