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ELF Takes Center Stage at Starmus Festival 2025

The telescope that will change history stood at the heart of the world’s most important science and art festival: STARMUS.
The LIOM project presented its technological jewel: the ELF telescope and its prototype, SELF. This is not just a scientific instrument—it’s the most advanced tool ever conceived to search for life on other worlds.
Jill Tarter, astrobiology legend and SETI pioneer, put it clearly: “Institutions must support ELF. ELF is the most advanced project in the search for life.”
Rafael Rebolo confirmed his ambition that ELF is the largest telescope ever built to detect biomarkers on exoplanets.
Adolfo Nemirovsky stated that ELF represents the boldest frontier of cosmic exploration, and that the Canary Global Foundation will collaborate in its creation.

SELF/ELF is not just science. It’s a vision that unites humanity, technology, and the cosmos in a single mission: to discover whether we are alone in the universe.

STARMUS was the stage. ELF, the revolution. What comes next… is just beginning.

 

Poster of the Starmus 2025 Science and Art Festival

Jeff Kuhn speaks about SELF/ELF in a beautiful square in La Palma

Jane Goodall at Starmus.

Interviewed Jill Tarter expresses her full support for ELF.

Jeff Kuhn shares details about the creation of SELF/ELF.

Raquel Conde, SELF/ELF communicator, interviews Jill Bell, who highlights the relevance of ELF's creation in our time.

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