LONDON: A 1.1 billion-euro project to build the world’s largest optical telescope will go ahead after the European organisation overseeing it said it won backing from most of its members.
The European Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) will directly image planets outside the solar system and those orbiting other suns in so-called “habitable zones” to perhaps answer the question of whether there is life elsewhere in the universe.
It will use a mirror 39 metres in diameter that
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