Construction on the world’s largest optical telescope starts off with a bang, as workers demolish a hilltop in Chile’s Atacama desert.
The European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) telescope, being built by the European Southern Observatory, aims to give astronomers new insight into the origins of the universe and help search for potentially habitable planets elsewhere in the galaxy.
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