In 2012, construction will begin the most powerful telescope

In the European Southern Observatory, located on the territory of Chile said that in 2012, will begin construction of the world's largest ground-based telescopes - The European Extremely Large Telescope.

This ambitious plan to build a scientific attitude has already been approved and funding obtained. The Governing Council of European Southern Observatory, ESO (European Southern Observatory) has approved a budget for 2012, which provides for preparatory work to establish a European Extremely Large Telescope, or E-ELT, sends CyberSecurity. ru.
Located a giant optical telescope will be located in the dry highlands of the Chilean Atacama Desert. Construction of the telescope - a project of the joint efforts of 15 countries from Europe. E-ELT located in a mountainous area of Chile because of the extremely dry climate, perfect cloudless skies and crystal clear skies, allowing the night to watch the sky with the same quality, which are orbiting telescopes. According to meteorologists, in a completely cloudless sky Atacama about 320 days a year, and for the year then receives only about a millimeter of precipitation, which is usually dissolved in the atmosphere and do not reach the earth's surface at all.
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Now researchers hope to make European Extremely Large Telescope will be able by 2018. If the project budget will not be reduced, then the telescope will be scheduled as a 4-fold higher than his closest colleague and ground-based astronomical 100 times more powerful than the Hubble Space Telescope.
Separately, the European Southern Observatory telescope optics talk about. It is expected that the unit will have a very powerful optical and laser guidance system at the stars, which will allow the telescope just focus on the radiation of distant stars. Computer Systems European Extremely Large Telescope will coordinate the work of six laser guidance systems and 984 beryllium mirrors.
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However, today the European Extremely Large Telescope - a project which is estimated to cost European taxpayers nearly one billion euros, with the construction phase, this amount is likely to increase.