University of Michigan Astronomy was featured in “Final Design of the ELT’s METIS Instrument Completed” in the European Southern Observatory Announcements. METIS is a first-generation instrument on the world’s biggest eye on the sky, the ELT, meaning it will start operating when or shortly after the telescope itself starts observing the skies. |
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An Eye on the Sky: U-M Astronomy Contributes Instrumentation to Extremely Large Telescope
The Extremely Large Telescope could change everything we know about the Universe—including how the first galaxies were created and where life on other planets may exist. And U-M is the only U.S. university involved in helping develop it.