Chile has won its bid for the world’s largest telescope to be constructed on its shores. The 42-metre European Extremely Large Telescope will be built in Chile’s north—3,060 meters above sea ...

For more than a quarter-century, workers have been toiling atop a mountaintop in Chile in a quest to ... that he hopes that the TAO telescope, one of the world’s finest infrared instruments ...

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The Chilean Andes will be the location for the world’s largest telescope ... part of an array of telescopes built by the European Southern Observatory organisation in Chile.

This out-of-this-world telescope is the biggest of its kind ... is a £775million telescope built in Chile’s Atacama Desert – one of the driest places on Earth. The telescope built by ...

There is currently a gigantic camera being built in the mountains of Chile ... or the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, it is set to be the largest camera in the world. Scheduled to be finished ...

On a mountaintop in northern Chile, the world’s largest digital camera is preparing ... Rubin Observatory — a new telescope nearing completion on Cerro Pachón, a 2,682-meter (8,800-feet ...