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European Extremely Large Telescope-Artwork

author: ESO/Novapix

reference: o-elt90-00013

Image Size 300 DPI: 33 * 19 cm

Artist's impression of the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) in its enclosure on Cerro Armazones, a 3060-metre mountaintop in Chile's Atacama Desert. The 40-metre-class E-ELT will be the largest optical/infrared telescope in the world — the world's biggest eye on the sky. Operations are planned to start early in the next decade, and the E-ELT will tackle some of the biggest scientific challenges of our time.

Keywords for this photo:

2012 - 3D - ASTRONOMY - CERRO ARMAZONES - CHILE - DOME - E-ELT - ELT - EXTREMELY LARGE TELESCOPE - ILLUSTRATION - MIRROR - OBSERVATORY - TELESCOPE -