
Elt And Big Ben #1

by Science Photo Library
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Elt And Big Ben #1
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Science Photo Library
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Photograph - Photograph
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ELT and Big Ben. Computer illustration comparing the size of the Elizabeth Tower (which houses Big Ben, right), London, UK, to that of the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Extremely Large Telescope (ELT, left). The ELT is an astronomical observatory housing the world's largest optical/near-infrared extremely large telescope that is now under construction on top of Cerro Armazones in the Atacama Desert, Chile. It consists of a 39.3 metre diameter segmented primary mirror and a 4.2 metre diameter secondary mirror.
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February 17th, 2021
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