Celebrating the telescope of the future

Children celebrate their success having produced a 1:1 scale model of the 39 metre primary mirror of the Extremely Large Telescope. The game was organised and played at the Osservatorio Astrofisico di Asiago — Asiago Astrophysical Observatory — part of the University of Padua near Asiago, Italy.

The game was originally played during the 2011 Open House Day at the ESO headquarters in Garching, Germany and uses 800 hexagonal pieces of card — each 1.4 metres in diameter — to represent each of the mirrors that together make up the huge primary mirror.

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Rosella Spiga/ESO

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Identificazione:gioco_elt_230713_8291
Tipo:Fotografico
Data di pubblicazione:Venerdì 06 Settembre 2013 15:01
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Nome:Extremely Large Telescope
Tipo:Unspecified : Technology
Categoria:People and Events

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