Building the Biggest Optical Telescope in the World
Construction is underway at Cerro Armazones — the future home of the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT).
When construction is done the ELT will be the largest optical telescope ever built — a dome the size of a cathedral.
It will dwarf all existing optical telescopes and usher in a new era of ground-based astronomy.
With the ELT, we will search for signs of life on distant worlds, study the nature of dark energy and dark matter, and explore the origins of the Universe.
Once complete, the ELT will give us a view of the Universe that we cannot yet imagine.
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