If a person is present in a shot, as in an upsweeping view of a concrete column at Dulles Airport or alongside a gargantuan telescope at Kitt Peak Solar Observatory, that human is usually minuscule by comparison.
Even though the suite of instruments for the E-ELT has yet to be finalized, ESO astronomer Joe Liske says the telescope will make observing time for cosmology, nearby galaxies, solar system studies and the burgeoning list of planets now known to circle other stars.