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title: Extremely Large Telescopes Will Add More Firepower To Search The Cosmos — HIGH T3CH
url: https://hight3ch.com/extremely-large-telescopes-will-add-more-firepower-to-search-the-cosmos/
date: 2015-03-12
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# Extremely Large Telescopes Will Add More Firepower To Search The Cosmos

The Atacama desert in Chile is famous for nothing: no water, no plants, no animals. That makes it a perfect place for astronomy, and the ideal location to build the European Extremely Large Telescope, or E-ELT, the world’s largest ever optical and infrared telescope.