The original construction plan proposed a telescope with a 100-meter diameter mirror, initially named the Overwhelmingly Large Telescope. However, the team realised that the design would be too ...

and the 42-meter European Extremely Large Telescope—a scaled-down version of the 100-meter Overwhelmingly Large Telescope, which was tabled at the planning stage when its projected budget turned ...

Workers in Chile are making progress on the Extremely Large Telescope, planned as one of the most capable astronomical ...