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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 Computer illustration comparing the dome of the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Extremely Large Telescope (ELT, far left) with those of other major ground-based telescope facilities that are currently under construction. The ELT is an astronomical observatory housing the world's largest optical/near-infrared extremely large telescope that is now under construction on top of Cerro Armazones in the Atacama Desert, Chile. It consists of a metre diameter segmented primary mirror and a metre diameter secondary mirror.

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