This extremely large footprint will form the foundation of the Extremely Large Telescope, set to become the largest optical telescope in the world (collecting 200x as much light as Hubble)

Overwhelmingly Large Telescope

The Overwhelmingly Large Telescope (OWL) was a conceptual design by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) organization for an extremely large telescope, which was intended to have a single aperture of 100 meters in diameter. Because of the complexity and cost of building a telescope of this unprecedented size, ESO has elected to focus on the 39-meter diameter European Extremely Large Telescope instead.


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