Go big or go home
Posted in Current Events, General on May 17th, 2010 by Peter LipscombAt the end of April, the European Southern Observatory culminated a multi-year site selection process for construction of the world’s largest telescope. Known as the E-ELT for the European Extremely Large Telescope, it will have a primary mirror spanning 138 feet. That size is more than four times larger than the biggest single-aperture telescope operating today. On the short list of candidate sites were four locations in Chile and one in the Canary Islands, Spain.
