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 ...

Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) soared through the starry skies above the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Paranal Observatory in Chile, home to the Very Large Telescope and future site of the ...

ESO's Extremely Large Telescope under construction in the Atacama desert in January 2025. | Credit: ESO/G. Vecchia The latest progress photos taken in January 2025 show cranes busy at work ...

Paranal’s facilities, however, should soon be outclassed by ESO’s under-construction $1.5-billion Extremely Large Telescope, or ELT, which boasts a light-gathering primary mirror nearly 40 ...

A: The Extremely Large Telescope is planned to be one of the most capable astronomical observatories ever assembled. The telescope, currently about 60% complete, is intended to search for evidence ...

In these gorgeous photos from the Paranal Observatory, it's not hard to see why. Photographer Yuri Beletsky caught comet G3 (ATLAS) looking " almost like a watercolor painting," ESO wrote in a ...

STORY: Among the remote desert hills of northern Chile lies the aptly named “Extremely Large Telescope.” :: Cerro Armazones, Chile The project, about 60% complete, is planned as one of the most ...

Astronomers have now produced the highest resolution direct images ever ... "The Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer can be considered the first extremely large telescope, so it's very ...