the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT). With blanks made by the German company SCHOTT, this vast structure was the biggest that the company had ever made. But the mirror didn't just need to be big.

Observatories in Chile’s Atacama Desert, including the world’s largest optical telescope, could be blinded by light pollution ...

Dozens of boxes holding mirrors are placed along a remote desert hill in northern Chile as workers make progress in the ...

ESO estimates the complex will leak as much light pollution as a city with a population of about 20,000. Parts of the ...

The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) — the world's largest visible- and infrared-light telescope — is currently under development on the Cerro Armazones mountain ...

The center structure will support the telescope's large central mirror and secondary mirror. | Credit: ESO/G. Vecchia Progress has also been made on the polygon structure at the base inside of the ...

A: The Extremely Large Telescope is planned to be ... of exoplanets for signs of life, he added. The telescope’s giant primary mirror will be made of 798 small mirrors and collectively be ...

On the Atacama Desert plateau, the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter ... among the world’s top 10 infrared telescopes in terms of the primary mirror's diameter. But it is unrivaled ...

STORY: Among the remote desert hills of northern Chile lies the aptly named “Extremely Large Telescope.”:: Cerro Armazones, ...