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This image may not be used by or to promote the arms, nuclear power or tobacco industries or any religious organisation, or in any discriminatory way, or to imply the endorsement by ESO of any product, service or activity Scaled down European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) mirror segment attached to its actuator. The planned European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) is under construction in the Atacama Desert, Chile. Its construction is only possible with a segmented primary mirror. A scaled down Active Segmented Mirror (ASM) composed of sixty-one hexagonal segments (approximately 100 times smaller than of an ELT segment) is being used to study new telescope control systems. When completed, this optical/infrared telescope will have a diameter primary mirror, the largest on Earth, and will be used to study extrasolar planets, super-massive black holes and dark matter.
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