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This Enormous New Telescope Will Be Powered By The World's Largest Mirror
The bigger the primary mirror of a telescope is ... and is currently under construction in a site in Chile in the Atacama Desert. This region is famous for hosting several large telescopes ...
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Take a Look at the World’s Largest Solar Thermal Farm
Gilles Mingasson The Mojave Desert is blooming. Construction crews are erecting mirrors —each measuring 70 square feet—at a rate of 500 per day across some 3,500 acres. When completed in late ...
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Keeping the ELT’s Vision Clear: The Automation behind the Precision Maintenance for the World’s Largest Telescope
The ELT (Extremely Large Telescope) by ESO, currently under construction in Chile’s Atacama Desert, features a 39-meter ...