The E-ELT at sunset (artist’s impression)

Artist's impression of the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) in its enclosure on Cerro Armazones, a 3046-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.

The design for the E-ELT shown here was published in 2011 and is preliminary.

Credit:

ESO/L. Calçada

Over de afbeelding

Id:eso1150a
Type:Ontwerp
Publicatiedatum:9 december 2011 14:00
Gerelateerde berichten:eso1150
Grootte:4500 x 2531 px

Over het object

Naam:Extremely Large Telescope
Type:Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Telescope
Categorie:ELT
Illustrations

Image Formats

Grote JPEG
1,5 MB

Inzoomen


Wallpapers

1024x768
140,2 KB
1280x1024
223,5 KB
1600x1200
314,9 KB
1920x1200
361,1 KB
2048x1536
508,7 KB