the European extremely large telescope
or e-elt for short will be by far the
largest optical and near-infrared
telescope in the world in early December
2014 the easel council gave the go-ahead
for the first construction phase of the
telescope
this is the esocast cutting-edge science
and life behind the scenes at ESO the
European Southern Observatory main
astronomy has reached a point where
bigger telescopes much bigger telescopes
are essential to address many of the
important unanswered questions for
merely a decade Issa has been working
together with its user community of
European scientists to design such a new
giant the eot the decision by the east
council means that crucial contracts
including those for the construction of
the dome and the telescope structure can
be awarded according to plan the eot
will have a main mirror 39 meters across
it will collect 13 times more light than
any other optical telescope today this
name mirror will not be a single mirror
instead it will consist of 798 hexagonal
mirror segments each about 1.4 meters
across but only five centimeters thick
the eot has an unusual optical design
using five mirrors
this includes advanced adaptive optics
that correct the fuzziness of
astronomical images that is caused by
atmospheric turbulence adaptive optics
are already in use at esos Very Large
Telescope by using this technique the
eot will be able to produce images up to
15 times sharper than those from the
Hubble Space Telescope
the eot will feature suite of
state-of-the-art science instruments to
capture the light that the telescope
collects
the Dome of the eot is an exercise in
superlatives with a height of 74 meters
and a diameter of 86 meters
it's simply Dwarfs any existing
telescope enclosure the perfect future
home for the eot has been found on the
summit of several amazoness a 3000 meter
high mountain only 20 kilometers from
eso's paranal observatory in northern
Chile
on the nineteenth of jun 2014 part of
the peak of several amazoness was
blasted away as an initial step towards
leveling the summit since then the work
on the mountain as well as on the road
from parallel to amazoness has
progressed well the construction of the
telescope itself will take about a
decade
once in operation the eot will tackle
some of the biggest scientific
challenges of our time it will image
planets around other stars and study
their atmospheres looking for bio
signatures the eot will also make
fundamental contributions to cosmology
by measuring the properties of the first
stars and galaxies in the universe and
by probing the nature of the mysterious
dark matter and dark energy
on top of this astronomers are also in a
way expecting the unexpected surprising
results that cannot be anticipated today
the European extremely large telescope
will represent a gigantic leap in our
ability to observe the universe around
us the world's biggest eye on the sky
will lead to a wealth of new discoveries
and it will revolutionize many areas of
astronomy
this marks the dawn of a new era
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