13 August 2020
Fastest star in the galaxy is found, and potentially its a “squeezar”
... in the future, Peißker told ROOM, especially when the Extreme Large Telescope (ELT) starts observing, he added. When completed, the ELT will be the largest optical/near-infrared telescope in the world and will gather 13 times more light than...
10 May 2017
Australia announce a strategic partnership with ESO
...,” added Zeeuw. At Paranal, ESO operates the Very Large Telescope and on Cerro Armazones, close to Paranal, ESO is building the 39-metre Extremely Large Telescope (ELT). At its first light in 2024 the ELT will become “the world’s biggest eye on the...
15 November 2017
Earth-mass temperate exoplanet found close by
...will be found in greater number with advancing technology. And when they are found, then ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) will be on hand to help detect vital organic biomarkers, such as oxygen, in the atmospheres of exoplanets close to us. “New...
25 January 2021
Unique six-exoplanet system challenges theories of how planets form
... might find additional planets that could exist in or very close to this zone. In addition, when ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) begins operating later this decade it will be able to directly image rocky exoplanets in a star’s habitable zone...
20 May 2020
Twisted feature could be the first direct evidence of a baby planet being born
... should be able to get even more detailed views of planets in the making when ESO finishes construction of its Extremely Large Telescope. With a whopping 39-metre compared with the 8.2 metre diameter and four movable 1.8 metre diameter Auxiliary...
November 2020
The alien hunter’s field manual
... carbon dioxide. During this decade several gigantic ground-based telescopes will be built: the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) and the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), all larger than 25 metres diameter, will be able...
