European Extremely Large Telescope E-ELT. It's a BIG ONE!!
The telescope's "eye" will be 39.3 meters in diameter and will gather 15 times more light than the largest optical telescopes operating at the time of its development. The telescope has an innovative five-mirror design that includes advanced adaptive optics to correct for the turbulent atmosphere, giving exceptional image quality
The primary mirror for the 39.3 metre design will be composed of 798 hexagonal segments, each 1.45 meters across but only 50 mm thick. A special correcting mirror in the telescope will be supported by more than 6,000 actuators that can distort its shape a thousand times per second. The telescope main structure will weigh about 2,800 tons
Artist's impression of the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) in its enclosure on Cerro Armazones, a 3060-metre mountaintop in Chile's Atacama Desert. The 39-metre E-ELT will be the largest optical/infrared telescope in the world — the world's biggest eye on the sky. Operations are planned to start early in the next decade, and the E-ELT will tackle some of the biggest scientific challenges of our time.
More about European Extremely Large Telescope E-ELT on Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Extremely_Large_Telescope
ESO Exoplanet Observations with the E-ELT 2014
The E-ELT project is organising a community workshop that will explore the science cases as well as selected and planned capabilities of the E-ELT in the field of exoplanets.
Music “Between Nothing and Everything” by Kai_Engel from Album Atlantida
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel
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