According to Reuters, Observatory of European Space (ESO) telescope for the largest value over $ 1 billion would be built in the deserts of northern Chile to serve the research save the universe and search for planets like Earth has life.

This telescope has a diameter of 42m, will be built at the sea surface elevation 3.060m located on a mountain in the Atacama Desert, northern Chile. This region which has very low density and moisture in the sky at night, convenient for observing the universe.

According to scientists, this giant telescope, allowing them to observe and study objects and phenomena in the universe that had previously not been discovered, such as black holes and dark energy.

The telescope is expected to be operational by 2018.

(source: news.ictexpress)