The world's largest telescope by far is being built in the Chilean desert. New aerial photos show how the instrument ...

The Extremely Large Telescope is currently under construction, with the most recent milestones including progress made with ...

Ground-based telescopes work best when the atmosphere between them and the Universe is kept to a minimum, making the ELT’s ...

The first 18 pieces for one of the European Southern Observatory’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) mirrors have started their 10,000 kilometer journey from France to Chile. It’s a key step on ...

The Very Large Telescope (VLT), EU, Chile, four units of 8.1 meters each Keck Telescope, the United States, Hawaii, two units of 10 meters each The Large Binocular Telescope (LBT), the United ...

Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) — the world's largest visible- and infrared-light telescope — is currently under development on the Cerro Armazones mountain in Chile's Atacama Desert.

Northwestern University is officially a founding partner of the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), an enormous ground-based ...

Using four telescopes linked together, astronomers have captured an astonishing image of a huge star more than 160,000 light years away ...

At Cerro Armazones, near Paranal, we are building “the world’s biggest eye on the sky” — ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope. From our offices in Santiago, Chile we support our operations in ...

As the 9th American institution to invest, Northwestern University expands the Giant Magellan Telescope international consortium to 15 members from the United States, Australia, Brazil, Chile, Israel, ...