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Nearly 500 mirror segments delivered for Extremely Large Telescope

Original: New milestone reached 🥳 Nearly 500 segments of the main mirror of our Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) have now arrived f

The European Southern Observatory announced that nearly 500 segments of the main mirror for its Extremely Large Telescope have now arrived from Europe at the ELT Technical Facility at the Paranal Observatory in Chile. That represents about half of all segments being manufactured for the primary mirror, which will be the largest ever built for an optical telescope, marking a major construction milestone.

Why now: The observatory publicly announced a significant construction milestone for the world's largest optical telescope, drawing attention from space and astronomy followers.

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• New milestone reached 🥳 Nearly 500 segments of the main mirror of our Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) have now arrived from Europe at the ELT Technical Facility at our Paranal Observatory in # Chile . That is around half of all the segments being made for what will become a… · esoastronomy · 154

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