Scientists are looking forward to the finish of constructing the biggest telescope of the world, The European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT).

ELTs are a priority for the world’s astronomers because they are going to be able to reveal things that people have never seen before by giving scientists a mammoth viewing lens into the night sky.

When they call this thing large, they mean it. The lens alone is going to be 40 meters wide, which is 131 feet and some change. It will be the largest lens on the planet, and will be capable of giving a new view of distant space. Apparently it will be able to capture images that are 15x sharper than Hubble.

One of the priorities for the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is to track down Earth-like planets, as well as planets in habitable zones. In addition, the ESO will be focusing on super-massive black holes, working to uncover more information on dark matter and its dispersal in the universe.

It is going to be exciting when the ESO finishes the E-ELT, planned to be some time around the end of the decade, as the discoveries that await it are sure to produce some awesome imagery, Geek.com reported.