Boom! Get Up Close To Yesterday’s Mountaintop Explosion For Astronomy
About 5,000 cubic meters of rock blasts into the air in this photo taken from a few hundred meters away. The explosion was part of the construction needed to clear the way for the European Extremely Large Telescope. Credit: ESO
Talk about starting your astronomy work with a bang! Yesterday’s controlled explosion on the top of Cerro Armazones marked the start of construction preparation for the European Extremely Large Telescope, a 39-meter (128-foot) device intended to teach us more about exoplanets and the universe’s history.
Luckily for those of us who couldn’t make it to Chile, the European Southern Observatory gave us some pictures and video of the explosion in action. These in fact are taken from just a few hundred meters away, much closer than delegates got yesterday during the groundbreaking ceremonies. Watch the videos below.
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