Artist’s impression of the European Extremely Large Telescope

Artist’s impression of the European Extremely Large Telescope, a photo by European Southern Observatory on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
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 information: www.eso.org/public/images/ann13019b/

Credit:
ESO/L. Calçada