World's Biggest Optical Telescope - ELT

The World's Biggest Optical Telescope, the Extremely Large Telescope is a 39.3 meter behemoth.
When completed in 2024, it will be the largest optical and infrared telescope in the world. #telescopes #elt #extremelylargetelescope

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[DanMorose]

Civilized World: “$1.5 billion for a telescope? We can’t afford that! By the way, did we get approval on our annual $750 billion military budget?”

[MarvelousLXVII]

I'm 52 and I have a 12 year old son. When I was his age the 200" Hale was what we junior astronomers talked about. I used to write letters to "The Hale Observatory" in Pasadena and they were always kind enough to send back black and white pictures. It would be so amazing to be my son's age again because the next 40 years are going to be amazing.

[cygnus]

Man.. For anything space related, the 2020's are sounding awesome.

[srinitaaigaura]

Next telescope will be called the Overwhelmingly Large Telescope. The next one will be called Oh my God what a huge telescope! The next one will be called WTF telescope. The next one after that will be called the speechlessly large beyond large telescope. The next one will be called I can see aliens eating breakfast with my indescribably unfathomably large telescope!

Just kidding. This is some remarkable technology to build something of this size and capability. How do they even design stuff this complex?

[NickatLateNite]

If you built a Basically Large Telescope and put it on a hill in the small town of Rye, East Sussex, England, you could possibly have the most famously named telescope of all time, you would have... a " BLT on Rye " !!!!

[evoman]

Can't wait for this one and the James Webb

[claymournesden]

I had no idea ground based telescopes could have systems to counteract the atmosphere's turbulence. Pretty interesting stuff, and exciting to think about what discoveries the near future holds!

[ssabykoops]

16 times the detail , , yea i've heard that before

[richardsilva-spokane]

Thanks Launch Pad. I was referring to deep field and extra deep field imaging. Hubble would spend weeks for its exposures. How will these Very Large Telescopes duplicate such ambitious exposures?

[aztronomy]

And here I am debating between 80mm and 100mm for my next scope lmao

[chasebob]

Im waiting for the MBTY telescope

Otherwise known as
"mines- bigger- than- yours"

[Dan]

Another amazing, very informative video. And all metric ☺👍. Thank you, Chris!

[RossM]

Astronomers are very literal when naming telescopes.

[NoPulseForRussians]

I love your content. Please continue to produce videos. Thank you.

[jcevur]

I wonder how well this scope will handle all the hundreds (soon to be thousands) of Space X satellites flying overhead?

What elevation is the mountain this scope will rest upon?

Thanks for a great video

[oozorakyou]

"that isn't my final form yet"

- telescope

[mackdarwinian]

Next big telescope will be called "Damn"

[amazingOst]

Hope we can get a closer look of Oumuamua! Must be top priority!

[richardsilva-spokane]

Just revisiting this post. QUESTION: Orbiting telescopes are stabilized to be able to take long time-exposures. How can an earthbound scope "lock" long enough to gain a sufficient exposure?

[alibektas]

Thank you Christian.very nice, amazing video..Please continue to produce videos..