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ESO, European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere
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ESO, European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere
Australian scientists will help construct one of the world's most powerful ground-based telescopes that promises to see further and clearer than the...
ESO, European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere
Toptica Projects delivers first Guide Star laser to Extremely Large Telescope 10 May 2021 Fulfilling a 2017 contract with European Southern Observatory for the ELT, which could use up to eight guide star lasers. With a tight schedule for the delivery of the remaining lasers (ELT could eventually use up to eight guide star lasers) and âfirst lightâ for the telescope itself expected in the second half of the 2020s, ESO seems to be leading the race for the next-generation super telescope, commented Toptica Projects. The guide star lasers for the adaptive optics system on the ELT are ...