ESO's Extremely Large Telescope at Cerro Armazones in Chile's Atacama Desert is seen from directly above while its ...

Beneath Chile’s brilliant skies, the ELT grows—an engineering giant ready to capture the secrets of the universe with the ...

The construction of the world’s largest visible- and infrared-light telescope is making significant strides in the remote ...

Assembly has begun on the beam structure for the sliding doors ... making it the largest segmented mirror ever built for a telescope. The ELT will have a total of five mirrors, all of which ...

The ELT "will be one of the main flagships of ... quality of observations over a larger field of view. The dome and telescope structure are on track to be completed by 2026.

home to ESO's Very Large Telescope, which is about 14 miles (23 kilometers) from the ELT, capturing a silhouette of the dome's structure surrounded by construction equipment. The ELT reached a ...

Visibly changing each day, the steel structure will soon acquire the familiar round shape typical of telescope domes. All other systems needed to complete the ELT, including the control system and ...

In Chile's Atacama Desert, the European Southern Observatory is constructing the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), poised to ...

The ELT could help scientists locate Earth-like planets ... So far, however, only the 2,500-ton metal dome structure that will protect the telescope has been erected. The extreme desert conditions can ...

Now past the official midpoint in its construction, the ELT is gradually looking more like a telescope. Cladding is starting to cover its skeleton. A support structure for the main mirror is in place.