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After several years of planning and no shortage of financial anxiety, construction has officially started on the Extremely Large Telescope. Contractors are now building the main structure and dome ...

ESO, the European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere, is taking an important step towards the realisation of a new, giant telescope for Europe’s astronomers, by ...

The Hale Telescope, a 200-inch instrument at Palomar Observatory near Los Angeles, held the world record for the world's largest astronomical observational tool from its opening in 1948 until 1975.

ESO switches on the largest ever optical telescope in Chile. by Colm Gorey. 13 Feb 2018. Save article. The Very Large Telescope during one of its rotations to observe the cosmos.

In Chile's Atacama Desert, a new wonder is slowly emerging — the European Southern Observatory's Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), to become the world's largest eye on the universe.