There's large and then there's the Very Large and Extremely Large Telescopes 🔭 🎤 📹: Jonathan Webb 🎧: Hear more about these incredible telescopes on The Science Show via the ABC listen app. #Telescope #AtacamaDesert #Chile #ELT #VLT | ABC Science

The Extremely Large Telescope, the most massive optical telescope ever built, could change everything we know about the universe—including how the first galaxies were created and where life on other planets may exist. U-M is the only US university helping build the telescope, which is located in Chile. myumi.ch/73GMm | University of Michigan

Dozens of boxes holding mirrors line a remote desert hill in northern Chile as workers advance construction of the Extremely Large Telescope, set to become one of the most powerful astronomical observatories ever built https://reut.rs/4jDwUDQ | Reuters