11:50 I don’t comment often, but this is an important clarification: radio telescopes do not 'listen' to space-they see it in a different wavelength of light. Radio telescopes are highly specialised instruments that observe the radio portion of the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum, capturing light at much lower energies than visible light. Our eyes only detect a narrow slice of the EM spectrum, which we perceive as visible light. But there’s so much more beyond that range! Radio waves are much longer wavelengths than visible light, allowing radio telescopes to detect objects and phenomena hidden by cosmic dust that would otherwise obscure our view. This capability lets us peer into regions of space opaque to optical telescopes, like the centres of galaxies or the birthplaces of stars. Radio astronomy has even allowed us to observe some of the earliest structures in the universe, giving us a unique window into the cosmos that goes far beyond what we could see with optical instruments. In short, radio telescopes are seeing devices that reveal a whole universe hidden at radio wavelengths-not listening devices. Hope this helps clarify!
Although I am no engineer or scientist, I am jealous of those whom are directly involved with this project. Can only imagine how proud and excited they are to be a part of this. This is the sort of news I wanna see covered on tv.
Just a small correction this NOT a EU project. This is a ESO project. That's why it has none EU members like the UK and Switzerland. There are 16 members of the ESO
Thanks for your video, very well done. A small detail, the system described in 10:00 (the laser thing) is adaptive optics (and not active optics). Active optics also exists in the telescope but it deals with the main mirror, maintaining the optimal shape of it.
As long as we put our ingenuity towards projects such as these, there is still hope for humanity! I pity anyone failing to understand why it is important for us to have inspirational pure science projects such as these!
I love the names that scientists use for their instruments. You'd expect them to be some sort of refined and meaningful thing but nope! Extremely Large Telescope :)
As a physicist, the beauty this will produce makes me cry with awe. I’m sure I’ll weep again when I see what the ELT reveals. The universe is truly awesome.
Hello Fred, I loved your forecasts for optical astronomy! RMT or Ridiculously Massive Telescope, TE or Telescope EndGame, and TR or Telescopeus-Rex. You may have invented such names to have some fun, but it is possible that some telescope builder from the future may get inspired from them. Greetings, Anthony
Really enjoyed your vid on this very impressive telescope. This weeks sponsor Brilliant , a math course, should attract maybe a dozen subscribers too Brilliant. Math is not my idea of FUN!
Brazil was supposed to be the first non-European member of ESO, and pave the way for others perhaps, and everything was agreed on in 2010, but it by the end of the decade that arrangement had fallen through.
Chile is not even a full member, surprisingly. Australia has been a "strategic partner" since 2017, but has limited access to telescopes (i.e. still has to apply like a non-member to get observation time on ALMA or the ELT). It seems there is no will from anyone to admit others. It's a pity really.
@@federicoxxx.jjjh.f2sss348 true, they are a partner and have benefits as a result, but it is just a bit surprising they are not full members. I guess there are many reasons for this, both on the ESO side, and the Chilean government side.
While I don't need memes to stay engaged on topics like this, adding them makes them more digestible to a wider audience which is always welcome when promoting the sciences. Not bad for the revenue share either. Win win!
its all fun & games, if the lower earth orbit isnt filled with thousands of shiny tiny satellites =/ PS: i just hope i live long enough to see TelescopusRex becoming reality 🤭
I'm not fond of all the movie segments. This is a channel for curious engineering minds that want to see whats being built around the world. We don't need the drama pop culture references. That stuff can be amusing in other kinds of videos, like cat videos.
I think this channel would completely kill a movie like 'Contact", by simply publishing a highly information vlog about the build of "another one"...even bigger then the first one... thanks...
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I bet Fred could level a mountain with those big arms
😂😂😂
@@TheB1M he just speaks softly to the mountain and he levels itself :D
@@gitgut4977 did... did you just assume the mountains gender?
the editor cooked w this edit 🔥
This is my favorite of all the B1M videos to date. As I'm 68 now, I hope I live to see some of it's first images.
Please keep track of this development for future videos. It is very interesting. Thanks.
11:50 I don’t comment often, but this is an important clarification: radio telescopes do not 'listen' to space-they see it in a different wavelength of light. Radio telescopes are highly specialised instruments that observe the radio portion of the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum, capturing light at much lower energies than visible light.
Our eyes only detect a narrow slice of the EM spectrum, which we perceive as visible light. But there’s so much more beyond that range! Radio waves are much longer wavelengths than visible light, allowing radio telescopes to detect objects and phenomena hidden by cosmic dust that would otherwise obscure our view. This capability lets us peer into regions of space opaque to optical telescopes, like the centres of galaxies or the birthplaces of stars. Radio astronomy has even allowed us to observe some of the earliest structures in the universe, giving us a unique window into the cosmos that goes far beyond what we could see with optical instruments.
In short, radio telescopes are seeing devices that reveal a whole universe hidden at radio wavelengths-not listening devices. Hope this helps clarify!
Thanks for being the one to write this :)
Amazing!, This is what makes me proud my country is spending money on.
This is literally in a desert though. And your average 100 metre rail tunnel will cause more environmental problems than this.
8:30 They should call the next one the Biggus Dickus Telescope.
and it shall discover a new black hole... Incontinentia Buttocks.
@@davidhutchinson88😂😂😂😂
I was going to go with Biggus Opticus.
Intostellasanus
Their naming conventions are still easier to understand than most
Easier than the USB naming "system" for shure.
ESO built the very large telescope. Now they build the Extremely Large Telescope. Looking forward to the Absurdly Large Telescope.
Humans are so cool, literally moving mountains to see the stars. ❤
Although I am no engineer or scientist, I am jealous of those whom are directly involved with this project. Can only imagine how proud and excited they are to be a part of this. This is the sort of news I wanna see covered on tv.
Made harder by the altitude. Air is very thin here so they need to carry oxygen with them when working.
I live right next to ESO headquarters in Germany. A very cool place and well worth the visit
just wow, big applause for this project
This is my favorite B1M episode!
I'm so glad Europe finally did something so cool! 🌌🇪🇺
Just a small correction this NOT a EU project. This is a ESO project. That's why it has none EU members like the UK and Switzerland.
There are 16 members of the ESO
@@bigbad25where did they claim it was the EU? Europe was prefectly correct.
They should've called it the BFT; but, I suppose the ELT is still good.
I wouldn't be surprised if SpaceX already owned the name BFT.
The sudden "off with his heeaaad!!" absolutely sent me 😂
Really cool project, and great editing :D
First generation Instrument HARMONI is being built here at the Astronomy Technology Centre in Edinburgh, Scotland
I've been waiting for years about updates on this construction. Oh boy, gunna enjoy watching this one over dinner :)
Thanks for your video, very well done. A small detail, the system described in 10:00 (the laser thing) is adaptive optics (and not active optics). Active optics also exists in the telescope but it deals with the main mirror, maintaining the optimal shape of it.
The James Webb Space Telescope is as significant. Located a million miles from Earth in L2 (second Lagrange point) exploring our cosmic history.
Mind blowingly complex/advanced optics yet you managed to ELI5 brilliantly. Appreciate you and your channel. Cheers.
@1:21 It is also where they film scenes of Mars!
😂😂😂
What a project! And amazing production-value too!
As long as we put our ingenuity towards projects such as these, there is still hope for humanity! I pity anyone failing to understand why it is important for us to have inspirational pure science projects such as these!
Спасибо Тебе, Человечество, за это творение!!!
Спасибо автору за интересный сюжет!!!
Incredible video! Loved it !
Feel like I'm the only one excited to see Telescopious Rex taking shape in the coming decades! 😂
😂😂
I love the names that scientists use for their instruments. You'd expect them to be some sort of refined and meaningful thing but nope! Extremely Large Telescope :)
I've been there, really wanted to visit the site but it was inaccessible for a good reason. Really beautiful place to visit.
Thanks theb1m
Nice video, pls do more videos about spaceconstruction
WOW progress looks amazing on the ELT!
Didn't think I'd see a Biggus Dickus reference in a B1M video.
Was looking for this comment 😂
Very enjoyable as always 👍
World Incredible construction Project.
Great video and very good music which for once was not intrusive. (Pachelbel Canon in D Major.)
A beautiful project. Thank you for covering it, quality content once again!
Happy Halloween Fred☺️
Why are cemeteries so noisy??
Because of all the coffin😉
The next should definitely be “telescope endgame” 😂😂
I always learn fascinating things from you, Fred!
Extremely Awesome!
Thank you Fred for another great video! Telescopeus-Rex... Bravo sir.
Great video brah!
Wow! Just wow!
The insert clips had my lmfao great job
Small but tasty is the Bacon Lettuce Telescope.
I enjoyed this video... I'm already a subscriber. Good going, Fred!
WOOOWWW 😁 ❤
Telescopes are my jam.
First “Very Large Telescope”, now “Extremely Large Telescope”, I see ESO is following the naming school of “who cares, just call it something”
awesome video!
Exciting, some lucky people will work there on the first day wow.
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us look up at the stars" - Oscar Wilde.
Who’s going to clean the mirrors with all that dust? Lol
the gooch collector
Fortunately there's also some good news these days 😄. It's nice to see us work together for something better that isn't just meant to make us richer.
As a physicist, the beauty this will produce makes me cry with awe. I’m sure I’ll weep again when I see what the ELT reveals. The universe is truly awesome.
I think it'll reveal turtles, all the way down. 😉
Hello Fred,
I loved your forecasts for optical astronomy!
RMT or Ridiculously Massive Telescope,
TE or Telescope EndGame, and
TR or Telescopeus-Rex.
You may have invented such names to have some fun, but it is possible that some telescope builder from the future may get inspired from them.
Greetings,
Anthony
10:23 majestic phone wallpapers 😅
Some European countries and Chile levelled a mountain
Great work, you and the people making this telescope! a few too many memes in the videos for my taste but very intersting!
Really enjoyed your vid on this very impressive telescope. This weeks sponsor Brilliant , a math course, should attract maybe a dozen subscribers too Brilliant. Math is not my idea of FUN!
Unless I missed it, did the video not actually say when the projected finish date is? Seems like a big piece of info to leave out
Big Ben is the bell in the Tower...
But everyone calls the tower Big Ben
shut up you pedantic dork, it’s ubiquitous, he had the tower labeled correctly on the image
@@Samuel_J1 The Elizabeth Tower already has a name...
@@Samuel_J1 no they dont
@@Samuel_J1 They don't on the topless tour buses. that's how I found out... 'everyone calls koalas koala-bears', it doesn't make them bears...
15 times... then it should see the serial numbers of the moon buggy, right... right?!!!
Brazil was supposed to be the first non-European member of ESO, and pave the way for others perhaps, and everything was agreed on in 2010, but it by the end of the decade that arrangement had fallen through.
Chile is not even a full member, surprisingly. Australia has been a "strategic partner" since 2017, but has limited access to telescopes (i.e. still has to apply like a non-member to get observation time on ALMA or the ELT).
It seems there is no will from anyone to admit others. It's a pity really.
@@cerealport2726 it's not a member but Chile has secured 10% of the observation time of the telescope, because of the agreement they reached
@@federicoxxx.jjjh.f2sss348 true, they are a partner and have benefits as a result, but it is just a bit surprising they are not full members. I guess there are many reasons for this, both on the ESO side, and the Chilean government side.
Telescopeus-rex. Im dying 🤣🤣🤣🤣
That telescope will be thicccc.
This is so funny 😂
Nice video
Good project
7:55 I want the Telescopeus Rex ❗😌
While I don't need memes to stay engaged on topics like this, adding them makes them more digestible to a wider audience which is always welcome when promoting the sciences. Not bad for the revenue share either. Win win!
Surely there's 17 countries involved? You know, seen as the ELT is not being built in any of the 16 ESO countries.
Maybe Chile didn’t want involvement and just leasing the land
If they were to sell the pictures, they would sell so much just for wallpapers alone
Maybe finally a Telescope to observe what’s happening on the moon …
It won’t beat James Webb in a lot of ways but I’m excited to see the images 😊
So we can see planets move across their sun live or was that moving like billons of years ago when we see it move? 🤯
6:09 "Math".... "Math"??? You're British mate. Maths.
Scientists and Engineers be like: F them mountain we're going to build big ass telescope here
just wait a couple of years, then China will say "Hold my beer". :-)
👇Petition for the next telescope to be named "Telecopus Rex"
Forget sharks with lasers, T-Rexes with telescopes!
its all fun & games, if the lower earth orbit isnt filled with thousands of shiny tiny satellites =/
PS: i just hope i live long enough to see TelescopusRex becoming reality 🤭
Good 😊👍
Please sort out the bot comments.
I guess "Titanic Telescope" is out of the question 😛
Love the casual style haha but maybe Donut exaggerate it or only once a while
I think you mean the Elizabeth Tower, not Big Ben - which is a bell.
Before it was named after our late Queen - The Elizabeth Tower used to be called Saint Stephen’s Tower.
Haha ! Love the name 😊 how are you Fred ! Doing well I hope 😊
It's massive for now, wait few years and they will build even bigger...
from 10:25 it's like watching Loki tv show
Great video. And for only $1.8B this project is a bargain!
I'm not fond of all the movie segments. This is a channel for curious engineering minds that want to see whats being built around the world. We don't need the drama pop culture references. That stuff can be amusing in other kinds of videos, like cat videos.
As it is that big they should call it: Super EXtremelY lARge teleSkopE
I think this channel would completely kill a movie like 'Contact",
by simply publishing a highly information vlog about the build of "another one"...even bigger then the first one...
thanks...
A more accurate description of the dome metal construction would be an Erector set , instead of Lego.
I thought someone might name a telescope called the Super Duper Extremely Large Telescope. Sounds like something from Kid's Next Door.
Solo Leveling ❌
ESO Leveling ✅
Nice video. However the comedic fragments distract from the message and take away from the professionalism of the presentation.
Those telescope names lol
Centuries ago, humanity spent vast amounts of time and money to build cathedrals to glorify something bigger than us. These are our modern cathedrals
Gotta see stuff, far away stuff