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The age of Big Glass is far from over.
While radio astronomy and space telescopes are all the rage in the 21st century, ground-based optical instruments still do cutting-edge science. And once it goes online, the European Southern Observatory’s Extremely Large Telescope, under construction at 10,000 feet atop Cerro Armazones in the Chilean Andes, will give astronomers a 39-meter — that’s nearly 128 feet — mirror to study black holes, take measurements of the universe’s rate of expansion and maybe even observe directly planets outside out solar system as the search for habitable Earth-like exoplanets continues to heat up.
Dr. Suzanne Ramsay, a Scottish-born astronomer stationed just outside of Munich, is the instrumentation project manager for what will be the largest optical telescope on the planet. She leads development of the instruments — the latest in imagers, spectrometers and other insanely sensitive technology — that will gather an ....

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