Chile’s Cerro Armazones Hosts the World’s Largest Telescope in the Making
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Space.com explains that the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) is under construction atop Cerro Armazones in Chile to become the world's largest telescope with a 39-meter primary mirror, enabling direct imaging of exoplanets and detailed studies of star and galaxy formation, while highlighting Chile's Atacama Desert as a premier site for ground-based astronomy and ESO's role alongside the VLT.
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