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The first stone ceremony for ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope has taken place at the Paranal Observatory in northern Chile, in the presence of the President of Chile.
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ESO.
Editing: Herbert Zodet and L. Calçada.
Web and technical support: Mathias André and Raquel Yumi Shida.
Written by: Hannah Dalgleish, Lauren Fuge, Oana Sandu and Richard Hook.
Music: tonelabs (tonelabs.com).
Footage and photos: ESO, ACe Consortium, Luis Calçada, Martin Kornmesser and Theofanis Matsopoulos.
Directed by: Herbert Zodet.
Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen.
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