The site was chosen for its altitude, placing the telescope above as much atmospheric disturbance as possible. The air has a ...

Early simulations show that it would take only 10 hours for the forthcoming ELT to find signs of life near Proxima Centauri.

The Extremely Large Telescope under construction in Chile's Atacama Desert could detect signs of alien life on other planets ...

Nadeen Sabha,University Innsbruck is the first astrophysicist in Austria to lead a research project at the new James Webb ...

With METIS and MICADO, two instruments for what will be the largest optical telescope in the world, the Extremely Large ...

The Extremely Large Telescope will revolutionize our view of the cosmos when it sees first light in Chile in 2028. In fact, ...

Over the past few years or so the most talked about kind of telescope was the one that is meant to operate in space. An ...

The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction in northern Chile, will give us a better view of the Milky ...

The project will also affect the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), a visible light mega-telescope with a nearly 125-foot-wide ...

The effects of a proposed green-energy facility in Chile could be devastating for some of the most powerful instruments ...

根据最新的计划，ELT 将在 2029 年 3 月建成并尝试进行观测，迎来初光——在爱好者圈子里喜欢叫它“开光”。随后，科研人员将对它进行较长时间的调试。对这样一台大型望远镜，一两年的调试并不算太长。预计到 2030 年 12 月，ELT ...