Europe looks towards 42-meter giant telescope

Zeenews : The European Southern Observatory has announced a 57 million euro investment into a 42-meter telescope that would be hundreds of times more sensitive that the best current optical and infrared telescopes. The European Extremely Large Telescope (not to be confused with the Overwhelmingly Large Telescope) would most likely cost 800 million euros to build and make extensive use of adaptive optics to combat atmospheric turbulence above the telescope. A final decision on whether to build the EELT will be taken in 2009.