World’s biggest telescope to be located on Armazones, Chile

Cerro Armazones has been selected as the baseline site for the planned 42-metre European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT). Cerro Armazones is a mountain at an altitude of 3060 metres in the central part of Chile's Atacama Desert, some 130 kilometres south of the town of Antofagasta and about 20 kilometres from Cerro Paranal, home of the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope.

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