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UK helps to build the world's largest telescope

5 March 2013

The UK is putting almost £90m towards building the world's largest telescope in Chile. The European extremely large telescope will cost nearly £1bn in total. "Most excitingly [the telescope] will directly image extra solar planets," says Professor Andrew Coates (UCL Space and Climate Physics). Listen: 5 Live Breakfast (from 42 mins)