Artist’s impression of the European Extremely Large Telescope
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 39-metre 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 is preliminary.
Credit:
ESO/L. Calçada
About the Image
| Id: | ann13019b |
| Type: | Artwork |
| Release date: | 4 March 2013, 14:00 |
| Related announcements: | ann13019 |
| Size: | 5000 x 2812 px |
About the Object
| Name: | European Extremely Large Telescope |
| Type: | • Unspecified : Technology : Observatory • X - Illustrations • X - E-ELT |
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