An artist's impression of the European Extremely Large Telescope on Cerro Armazones, a 3,060-metre mountaintop in Chile's Atacama Desert: For comparison, look at the size of the cars
No problem. Just print more money.
Well, we all know the old saying...."You can't take it with you".
Spend it while you have it! /s
That 39 meter mirror (about 128 feet) is far less in diameter than the facility circumference appears in the photo. Just a SWAG using the size of the autos puts that distance in excess of 250 feet.
Yes but can it core a apple?
I am not even sure we’ve ever had pictures of planets beyond our solar system,not the way we have of some of the more distant planets in our own neighborhood.
Also there is only one system within two light years.So it doesn’t seem this telescope,if it gets build,will be seeing all that much.
I am just disappointed that with this money being spread around,no one is actually building on these new frontiers in our heavens such as the moon.
Eventually, though probably not in my lifetime but this is how we’ll find life on other planets. We’ll be able to build telescopes powerful enough to see it. Kepler is finding planets left and right, all over the place. At some point, there’s going to be a space-based telescope that’ll be able to zoom right in to discern extraterrestrial forests and fields.
