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Extremely Large Telescope could sense hints of life at Proxima Centauri in just 10 hours, simulations suggest

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Extremely Large Telescope ( ELT ) is currently under construction in northern Chile .

It's scheduled to come online in 2028 and will give us images 16 times sharper than the Hubble Space Telescope .

One of the most powerful features of the ELT will be to capture faint atmospheric spectra from the atmospheres of exoplanets.

This is usually done as a planet passes in front of its star from our vantage point.

But sometimes the data we can gather is inconclusive.

The ELT 's greater sensitivity should be able to settle the question.

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