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Todd SundstedESO
Todd Sundsted shared a note by ESO Oct 14, 2026
A warehouse with metal structures holding white boxes with a blue ESO logo.

New milestone reached 🥳

Nearly 500 segments of the main mirror of our Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) have now arrived from Europe at the ELT Technical Facility at our Paranal Observatory in #Chile. That is around half of all the segments being made for what will become a 39-metre eye on the sky.

➡️ eso.org/public/announcements/a

#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science #engineering

📷 ESO

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Todd Sundsted
Todd Sundsted posted Aug 31, 2025

Heartbreaking discussion about the last 12 months at NASA. As one panelist put it: “A lot of smart people who think about the future. Where are they going?”

Presentation Titled: “Challenges of Working at NASA This Past Year”
NASA Panelists on the Space Track

A.C. Charania, Scott G.C. Edgington, Les Johnson, Trina L. Ray, Kim Steadman (not in order)

The sobering realization is how much has changed since Dragon Con twelve months ago.

#dragoncon #space