Friday, December 12, 2025

Cooling the "largest astronomical instruments ever" | European Southern Observatory

Cooling the "largest astronomical instruments ever" | European Southern Observatory

The light gathered by European Southern Observatory's Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) will be captured by house-sized instruments that need to be cooled down to detect faint signals from the cosmos. How do we cool these huge systems to as low as -270 ºC? Our engineers are hard at work at it.

Learn more more about the  European Southern Observatory’s ELT at: https://elt.eso.org/


Video Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)
Duration: 1 minute
Release Date: Dec. 12, 2025

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