Zeenews:
The European Southern Observatory has announced a 57 million
euro investment into a 42-meter telescope that would be
hundreds of times more sensitive that the best current optical
and infrared telescopes. The European Extremely Large Telescope
(not to be confused with the Overwhelmingly Large Telescope)
would most likely cost 800 million euros to build and make
extensive use of adaptive optics to combat atmospheric
turbulence above the telescope. A final decision on whether to
build the EELT will be taken in 2009.
