Mountaintop Blast! New Telescope Groundbreaking Caught On Video

Thursday, June 19, 2014 - 18:00 in Astronomy & Space

Part of the peak of the Cerro Armazones mountain in Chile was blown up to make way for Europe's Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT). When constructed it will become the largest optical/infrared telescope in the world

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