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  2. Work progresses on giant telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert

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    The telescope, currently about 60% complete, is intended to search for evidence of potential life on planets beyond our solar system - called exoplanets - and peer back in time to look for the ...

  3. Groundbreaking telescope reveals first piece of new cosmic map

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    Zooming in on a portion of the Euclid telescope's map 600 times reveals the galaxies within the cluster Abell 3381, located 470 million light-years away from Earth.

  4. Extremely large telescope - Wikipedia

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    Comparison of nominal sizes of apertures of the above extremely large telescopes and some notable optical telescopes. An extremely large telescope (ELT) is an astronomical observatory featuring an optical telescope with an aperture for its primary mirror from 20 metres up to 100 metres across, [1] [2] when discussing reflecting telescopes of optical wavelengths including ultraviolet (UV ...

  5. ‘Mind-blowing’ new images reveal 19 galaxies ‘down to the ...

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    The James Webb Space Telescope has captured new detailed portraits of 19 spiral galaxies filled with millions of stars and glowing gas and dust.

  6. Giant Magellan Telescope - Wikipedia

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    The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) is a ground-based, extremely large telescope currently under construction at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile's Atacama Desert.With a primary mirror diameter of 25.4 meters, it is expected to be the largest Gregorian telescope ever built, observing in optical and mid-infrared wavelengths (320–25,000 nm). [1]

  7. List of largest optical reflecting telescopes - Wikipedia

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    The Extremely Large Telescope under construction in June 2024. These telescopes are under construction and will meet the list inclusion criteria once completed: Extremely Large Telescope, Chile – 39.3 m (1,550 in). Construction began in 2018, first light planned in 2028. [23]

  8. Green comet 2023 – live: How to see E3 in sky tonight before ...

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    The Virtual Telescope Project and Telescope Live used their telescopes in Italy and Spain to capture Comet C/2022 E3 in real-time last night. ... The good news is the cloud will almost comletely ...

  9. Very Large Telescope - Wikipedia

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    The Very Large Telescope (VLT) is an astronomical facility operated since 1998 by the European Southern Observatory, located on Cerro Paranal in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. It consists of four individual telescopes, each equipped with a primary mirror that measures 8.2 meters in diameter.