A high-stakes face-off is brewing in the arid deserts of northern Chile, between astronomers building the world’s largest optical ... $1.5-billion Extremely Large Telescope, or ELT, which ...

A: The Extremely Large ... telescope is located on Armazones Hill, about 3 km above sea level and about 1,000 km north of Chile’s capital. The telescope is expected to be the largest optical ...

Giant Magellan Telescope The GMT is one of several large ground-based optical telescopes in development ... with a three-mile diameter, to provide extremely high brightness sensitivity; the ...

We acknowledge the European Community, which granted this Extremely Large Telescope Design Study in Framework Programme 6 (contract 11863). We thank R. Gilmozzi, Principal Investigator of the European ...

The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Extremely Large Telescope (ELT ... M1 will be the largest mirror ever built for an optical telescope. Breaking space news, the latest updates on ...

AbstractBoth meteorology and optical conditions are crucial for selecting the best site to host extremely large telescopes such as ... both for determining the feasibility of telescope and ...

Construction of the world's largest telescope moves forward with progress of the structure's dome and housing for the primary mirror. The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Extremely Large ...

The next generation of telescopes, including the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT ... will be the largest ...

This is very challenging in an observatory situation, and systems are often compromised by mechanical vibration and turbulence in the optical ... big, complex and expensive as many current telescopes.

STORY: Among the remote desert hills of northern Chile lies the aptly named “Extremely Large ... on the telescope. And we did it in less than one year. I mean, this is a major challenge." The ...

When fully assembled, M1 will be the largest mirror ever built for an optical telescope. The inner frame of ESO's Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) which will support all five mirrors of the ELT ...