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Latest step towards world's largest telescope that will observe 'first stars and galaxies ever formed' | University of Oxford
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You've all heard of the VLT well here comes the E-ELT. (European - Extremely Large Telescope) : r/space
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The Very Large Telescope/Paranal (Chile) at sunset - UT1/UT2/UT3/UT4 and the four ATs : r/astrophysics
![TIL the 'Overwhelmingly Large Telescope' was a conceptual European observatory that was intended to have a single aperture of 100 meters in diameter, but due to the complexity and cost of a TIL the 'Overwhelmingly Large Telescope' was a conceptual European observatory that was intended to have a single aperture of 100 meters in diameter, but due to the complexity and cost of a](https://preview.redd.it/271nzw9iwf971.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=942c8306d57340f0d21eda6642041b05448141f6)
TIL the 'Overwhelmingly Large Telescope' was a conceptual European observatory that was intended to have a single aperture of 100 meters in diameter, but due to the complexity and cost of a
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The European Extremely Large Telescope Just Got a 10% Budget Boost, Now Costing $1.5 Billion - Universe Today
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The largest space telescope in history is about to blow our minds. The James Webb Space Telescope will be 100 times as powerful as the Hubble. It will change how we see
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Size of the European Extremely Large Telescope (first light planned for 2024) compared to the Very Large Telescope and the Colosseum : r/space
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This extremely large footprint will form the foundation of the Extremely Large Telescope, set to become the largest optical telescope in the world (collecting 200x as much light as Hubble) : r/space
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The Overwhelmingly Large Telescope: at a cost of €1.5 billion and aperture of 100 metres, it could spectroscopically analyse Earth-size planets around the 40 nearest sun-like stars. It could observe objects 1,500
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