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A wheel fit for a giant
In a cleanroom at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics ( MPE ) in Garching, Germany, two engineers look up at the heart of MICADO . One of the first instruments that will operate on ESO's Extremely Large Telescope ( ELT ) in Chile’s Atacama Desert, MICADO will observe the Universe in the infrared, and each slot in this giant rotating wheel carries a different filter that lets light through at…
- Credit
- ESO
- Telescope
- European Southern Observatory
- Release
- potw2638a
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0 — credit required
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- Source
- ESO release page