Artist’s Illustration of the European Extremely Large Telescope
Sure to produce images far more inspiring than its name, the European Extremely Large Telescope, or E-ELT. (Artist’s rendereing)

Excerpt from space.com

 The world’s largest telescope has gotten its official construction go-ahead, keeping the enormous instrument on track to start observing the heavens in 2024.

The European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), which will feature a light-collecting surface 128 feet (39 meters) wide, has been greenlit for construction atop Cerro Armazones in Chile’s Atacama Desert, officials with the European Southern Observatory (ESO) announced Thursday (Dec. 4).