Future Observatory

ELT — Extremely Large Telescope

Under construction on Cerro Armazones in Chile (3,046 m), the ELT will be the largest optical/near-infrared telescope ever built, with a segmented primary mirror of 39.3 m diameter — 5× the area of any existing telescope. Its adaptive optic

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