This one-of-a-kind huge telescope will capture the sharpest and best images of space any telescope has ever done.

An envelope. It indicates the ability to send an email. In 2016, the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope achieved “first light” on its new optics system, shooting four ...

The biggest new telescopes are being built in the mountains of Chile. The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) will house a mirror the size of four tennis courts, under a huge dome in the Atacama desert.

Giant Magellan Telescope The GMT is one of several large ground-based optical telescopes ... among other pursuits. The E-ELT will dwarf all other optical/near infrared telescopes.

Construction of the Extremely Large Telescope has reached another milestone, with the completion of the dome's steel skeleton. The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Extremely Large Telescope ...

Insights from a new study suggest that the European Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) could offer the best prospects for detecting biosignatures on nearby rocky exoplanets within the next two ...

Antonia M. Varela, Héctor Vázquez Ramió, Jean Vernin, Casiana Muñoz-Tuñón, Marc Sarazin, Hervé Trinquet, José Miguel Delgado, Jesús Jiménez Fuensalida, Marcos Reyes, Abdelmajid Benhida, Zouhair ...

Thus, in 2014, ESO broke ground for its European-Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) at Paranal Observatory in northern Chile’s Atacama desert. Due for scientific first light in November 2024 ...

In recent decades, we’ve learnt huge amounts about the universe and its history. The rapidly developing technology of telescopes – both on Earth and in space – has been a key part of this process, and ...