Watch: Blowing Up a Mountain to Make Way for World’s Biggest Telescope

[HTML1] The best thing about the future of astronomy is that it starts with a bang. Today, you can watch as the European Southern Observatory takes the first step in building the world’s biggest ground-based telescope—the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT)—by blowing up the top of a mountain in Chile. The blasting event will start […]

















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