This is a planned ground-based extremely large telescope for the optical or near-infrared range, this telescope is constructed by the ESO (European Southern Observatory on top of a mountain in Cerro Armazones, Chile.
This is the World's Largest Telescope to be built in Chile over the next decade by the ESO team compose of scientist and engineers. This telescope will collect 15 times more light than any existing optical telescope and enable the detailed study of planets outside our solar system.
This telescope will certainly help to examine the earliest stages of the formation of our planetary systems and also to detect other living things in proto-planetary discs around stars.
£88m to the £1bn is commited on this project and also set to receive an expected £90m worth of contracts for the telescope’s construction, which began last year.
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