What will the ELT discover? | Chasing Starlight 6

What future science can we expect to do with the telescope that will look billions of years back in time?

Join ESO astronomer, Suzanna Randall, in this episode of Chasing Starlight, as we explore the discoveries we expect to make with ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT).

01:49 What more can we learn about our very own Solar System?
02:51 Is there alien life somewhere in our galaxy?
03:45 What secrets are black holes hiding?
04:38 How did the first galaxies form?

Credit:

ESO

Directed by: L. Calçada, M. Kornmesser, M. Wallner
Hosted by: S. Randall
Written by: C. Sciarma, B. Ferreira, T. Howarth
Editing: M. Kornmesser, L. Calçada
Videography: A. Tsaousis
Animations & footage: M. Kornmesser, L. Calçada, N. Risinger (skysurvey.org), DSS, VISTA, VVV Survey/D. Minniti DSS, Nogueras-Lara et al., Schoedel, NACO, GRAVITY Collaboration, EHT Collaboration, NASA.

Additional footage:

Don't Look Up (2021)
Hyperobject Industries, Bluegrass Films, Netflix, Directed by Adam McKay, Screenplay and Story by Adam McKay, David Sirota. Produced by Adam McKay, Kevin Messick

Back to the Future (1985)
Amblin Entertainment, Universal Pictures, Directed by Robert Zemeckis, Written by Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale. Produced by Bob Gale, Neil Canton

Music: Videvo
Web and technical support: G. Bazin, R. Yumi Shida
Scientific consultant: J.C. Muñoz Mateos
Promotion: O. Sandu
Filming Locations: ESO Supernova (supernova.eso.org)

Produced by ESO, the European Southern Observatory (eso.org)

Usage of ESO Images, Videos, Web texts and Music