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The Extremely Large Telescope Could Sense the Hints of Life at Proxima Centauri in Just 10 Hours

The Extremely Large Telescope Could Sense the Hints of Life at Proxima Centauri in Just 10 Hours

The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction in northern Chile, will give us a better view of the Milky Way than any ground-based telescope before it. It's difficult to overstate how transformative it will be. The ELT's primary mirror array will have an effective diameter of 39 meters. It will gather more light than previous telescopes by an order of magnitude, and it will give us images 16 times sharper than the Hubble Space Telescope. It's scheduled to come online in 2028, and the results could start flooding in literally overnight, as a recent study shows.

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