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Installing the Giant Doors of The Extremely Large Telescope | ESO FriendsofNASA.org: Our Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) needs extremely large doors. We are currently installing the giant sliding doors that will protect the ELT from the elements during the day, and open up at night to observe the Universe. The ELT dome has now reached its highest point—80 m. We celebrated this symbolic milestone in a ceremony, known as "tijerales" in Chile, raising the European Southern Observatory and Chilean f