The European Extremely Large Telescope will be built on a 3064m high mountain located in the Chilean Coast Range
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The telescope's "eye" will be almost half the length of a soccer pitch in diameter and will gather 15 times more light than the largest optical telescopes operating today. Such a telescope may, eventually, revolutionise our perception of the Universe, much as Galileo's telescope did, 400 years ago. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/submit-an-article/4332-european-extremely-...
