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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 European Extremely Large Telescope site. Composite image of the Milky Way over the site chosen for the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) in Cerro Armazones, Atacama Desert, Chile. The E-ELT will be an optical/infrared telescope with a 42 metre diameter primary mirror, the largest on Earth. The E-ELT will be used to study extrasolar planets, super-massive black holes and dark matter. It should be operational by 2018.

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