A giant European telescope rises as U.S. rivals await rescue

Re:A giant European telescope rises as U.S. rivals await rescue by 7373737373 on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @06:17PM (#38092183)

I think its total mirror area is more than that of all existing (largest) professional reflecting optical telescopes combined

39.3m aperture, mirror area scales quadratically with that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremely_Large_Telescope

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Re:A giant European telescope rises as U.S. rivals await rescue by Aeolun on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @01:45AM (#38094989)

I love their naming sense.

Very Large Telescope

Extremely Large Telescope

Overwhelmingly Large Telescope

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Re:A giant European telescope rises as U.S. rivals await rescue by nicolas314 on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @05:09AM (#38096055)

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Re:A giant European telescope rises as U.S. rivals await rescue by pvaldes on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @06:24AM (#38096517)

next should be called 'Such Telescope' and 'So much Telescope wow'

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Re:A giant European telescope rises as U.S. rivals await rescue by layer8 on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @08:03AM (#38097154)

Definitely A Telescope

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Re:A giant European telescope rises as U.S. rivals await rescue by strangesmells02 on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @08:04AM (#38097165)

Chonky boy Telescope

Telescope AF

Oh lawd he comin

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Re:A giant European telescope rises as U.S. rivals await rescue by fomine3 on Thursday November 02, 2023 @03:37AM (#38110102)

It follows how frequency band called

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