At a ceremony today in Santiago, Chile the Chilean Minister of Foreign Affairs, Alfredo Moreno and ESO’s Director General, Tim de Zeeuw, signed an agreement regarding the European Extremely Large Telescope. This agreement between ESO and the Chilean government includes the donation of land for the telescope, as well as a long-term concession to establish a protected area around it, and support from the Chilean government for the establishment of the E-ELT.
The release, images and videos are available on:
http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1139/
Translations are available in: Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Polish, Portuguese/Portugal, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian
Kind regards,
The ESO Education and Public Outreach Department
13 October 2011
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