5 days ago · The Extremely Large Telescope: The World's Biggest Eye On The Sky

ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope, or ELT for short, is a revolutionary ground-based telescope that will have a 39-metre main mirror and will be the largest visible and infrared light telescope …

The giant ELT dome will house the telescope and its interior structure, providing protection from the extreme environment of Chile’s Atacama Desert. The main structure of the telescope will …

5 days ago · This interactive, 360-degree webcam offers high-resolution internal views from the top of the dome of ESO’s ELT as it is being constructed. From this perspective the …

The Extremely Large Telescope: The World's Biggest Eye On The Sky

The M1 mirror is certainly one of the most challenging sub-systems of the entire ELT programme. It comprises thousands of highly sophisticated components that require extreme accuracy, not …

Cerro Armazones is a mountain at an altitude of 3060 metres in the central part of Chile’s Atacama Desert, some 130 kilometres south of the town of Antofagasta and about 23 …

6 days ago · This mirror will stabilise the images of the Extremely Large Telescope | ELT Updates

With the ELT, the detailed study of the atmospheres of young, Earth-like and massive exoplanets will intensify. The telescope will search for biomarker molecules — signs of extraterrestrial life.

The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) will have a 39-metre mirror (almost half the length of a football pitch) and will thus be by far the biggest telescope in the world to observe in the visible …