On Thursday, European Southern Observatory (ESO) publicly announced that the world’s greatest telescope received first construction approval. It seems that the European Extremely Large Telescope will be ready by 2024. The new telescope will be about 100 meter high (328 feet) and it will be equipped with a light collecting area 39 meters (128 feet) wide. It will watch the skies atop of Cerro … [Read more...]
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