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Expected to be the world's largest telescope, the Extremely Large Telescope will explore the dark reaches of the cosmos once it's complete.
Credit Swinburne Astronomy Productions/ESO Wyoming Stargazing, an astronomy non-profit, is hosting a free online speaker series this spring and summer. The next featured speaker is Suzanne Ramsay from the European Southern Observatory in Munich. Ramsay is the instrumentation project manager for the Extremely Large Telescope, which will have a mirror that's 39 meters across when it's finished being built. "The current telescopes that astronomers use around the world are—the largest ones for the optical and infrared astronomy that we're talking about—they're eight to ten meters in diameter,...
The age of Big Glass is far from over. While radio astronomy and space telescopes are all the rage in the 21st century, ground-based optical instruments still do cutting-edge science. And once it goes online, the European Southern Observatoryâs Extremely Large Telescope, under construction at 10,000 feet atop Cerro Armazones in the Chilean Andes, will give astronomers a 39-meter â thatâs nearly 128 feet â mirror to study black holes, take measurements of the universeâs rate of expansion and maybe even observe directly planets outside out solar system as the search for...
As a young girl growing up in small-town Vermont, Aki Roberge dreamed of other worlds. An avid science fiction fan, she wondered if the kinds of planets she saw in the âStar Warsâ movies, with their varied climates and cultures, creatures and civilizations, might really exist. Today, and for more than a decade now, she actually explores such possibilities, searching not for parched Tatooine or ice-clad Hoth, but for real exoplanets â planets orbiting other stars. Dr. Aki Roberge, a research scientist in NASAâs Exoplanet and Stellar Astrophysics Lab at the Goddard Space Fli...