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'Extremely Large Telescope' being built in Chile could detect signs of alien life in a single night

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The ELT 's primary mirror array will have an effective diameter of 39 meters .

It will gather more light than previous telescopes by an order of magnitude.

It's scheduled to come online in 2028 , and it will give us images 16 times sharper than the Hubble Space Telescope .

One of the most powerful features of the ELT will be to capture faint spectra from the atmospheres of exoplanets.

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