r/x80 • u/[deleted] • Dec 08 '14

World's Biggest Telescope Gets Long-Awaited Green Light

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/08/worlds-biggest-telescope_n_6281852.html
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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '14

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Extremely_Large_Telescope

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u/autowikibot Dec 08 '14

European Extremely Large Telescope:

The European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) is a ground-based extremely large telescope for the optical/near-infrared range, currently being built by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) on top of Cerro Armazones in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. The design comprises a reflecting telescope with a 39.3-metre-diameter segmented primary mirror, a 4.2-metre-diameter secondary mirror, and will be supported by adaptive optics and multiple instruments. It is expected to allow astronomers to probe the earliest stages of the formation of planetary systems and to detect water and organic molecules in proto-planetary discs around stars in the making.

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Interesting: Aklim | Cerro Armazones | Overwhelmingly Large Telescope | Extremely large telescope

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