The Extremely Large Telescope Could Sense the Hints of Life at Proxima Centauri in Just 10 Hours
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The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction in northern Chile, will give us a better view of the Milky Way than any ground-based telescope before it. It's difficult to overstate how transformative it will be. The ELT's primary mirror array will have an effective diameter of 39 meters. It will gather more light than previous telescopes by an order of magnitude, and it will give us images 16 times sharper than the Hubble Space Telescope. It's scheduled to come online in 2028, and the results could start flooding in literally overnight, as a recent study shows.
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Original Title: Extremely Large Telescope could sense hints of life at Proxima Centauri in just 10 hours, simulations suggest, for a Neptune-sized world the ELT could capture planetary spectra in about an hour, it’s scheduled to come online in 2028