The world's largest telescope is located in Chile

Chilean Foreign Minister Fernando Schmidt on April 26 announced that the European Space Research Organization in the Southern Hemisphere (ESO) has decided to choose this South American country as the world's largest telescope.

The large European special telescope (E-ELT), dubbed "the world's largest eye in the world" when completed, will have a diameter of 42m, equivalent to the size of a standard swimming pool. used for the Olympics.

The E-ELT telescope is made up of 1,000 hexagonal lenses, measuring 1.45m each and will be installed in Chile from the end of this year.

The location of the E-ELT installation is in the Armazones mountains in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, at an altitude of over 3,000m, about 1,200km north of Santiago.

This scientific work has invested up to 1.5 billion USD and is expected to go into operation from 2018.

The European Space Research Organization in the Southern Hemisphere (ESO) said it chose the Atacama desert area as a place to set up a telescope because the sky is very clear, there are 10 cloudless months, humidity extremely low and almost never hit by storms.

Meanwhile, Chilean authorities said that being selected to install the project would open opportunities for Chilean space science to develop.

Chilean Foreign Minister Chile Schmidt said Chile now has the most cosmic observatory stations in the world, with five stations being operated by US, European Union (EU), Japan and Brazil organizations. The most significant is the largest southern hemisphere observation station at La Silla also of ESO./.