ESO Organisation Release eso1225: ESO To Build World’s Biggest Eye On The Sky. ESO is to build the largest optical/infrared telescope in the world. At its meeting in Garching today, the ESO Council approved the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) Programme, pending confirmation of four so-called ad referendum votes. The E-ELT will start ...

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11 June 2012

ESO is to build the largest optical/infrared telescope in the world. At its meeting in Garching today, the ESO Council approved the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) Programme, pending confirmation of four so-called ad referendum votes. The E-ELT will start operations early in the next decade.

The release, images and videos are available on:
http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1225/

Translations are available in: Spanish

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11 June 2012




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