Giant telescope to study star secrets
Construction of world's biggest optical telescope has been approved by member states of the European Southern Observatory (Eso).
The European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) will have a primary mirror some 40m in diameter, and will be built on top of a mountain in Chile.
Pallab Ghosh reports.
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