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Here's everything you need to know about the Extremely Large Telescope, which will become the largest telescope in the world when it is completed at the end of the decade.

The under construction ESO Extremely Large Telescope in Chile was captured in 2025 and 2023 with the sun rising behind it.

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Europe’s Extremely Large Telescope, as seen at night in June 2023 while under construction atop the summit of Cerro Armazones in Chile’s Atacama Desert.

They call it, simply, the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), because it will be absolutely massive – the largest of its kind ever made.

— The Extremely Large Telescope: Facts about the world's largest telescope The central tower below the "spider" structure will support the ELT's remaining three mirrors.