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Famous Astronomical Observatories
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Hubble Space Telescope
Orbiting Earth, discoveries include the Hubble Deep Field, the rate of expansion of the universe, and the presence of dark energy.
Mauna Kea Observatories
Hawaii, USA; site of many telescopes including Keck, which discovered evidence of supermassive black holes.
Palomar Observatory
California, USA; known for the discovery of numerous comets, asteroids, and dwarf planets.
Lick Observatory
California, USA; discoveries include several moons of Jupiter, and helped in measuring the speed of light.
Very Large Array
New Mexico, USA; studies include radio images of the Sun and detailed observations of black holes and neutron stars.
Paranal Observatory
Atacama Desert, Chile; hosts the Very Large Telescope (VLT), contributed to the discovery of the accelerating universe.
La Silla Observatory
Atacama Desert, Chile; studies include the first direct image of an exoplanet.
Chandra X-ray Observatory
Space-based; studies include detailed X-ray images of galaxy clusters, supernova remnants, and black holes.
Green Bank Observatory
West Virginia, USA; discoveries include the first millisecond pulsar and observational work on interstellar chemistry.
Kitt Peak National Observatory
Arizona, USA; known for solar observations and discoveries of cometary bodies.
Arecibo Observatory
Puerto Rico; contributed significantly to the fields of radar astronomy and radio astronomy, and notable for its SETI program before its collapse in 2020.
South Pole Telescope
Antarctica; studies include observations of cosmic microwave background radiation to understand the nature of dark energy and neutrinos.
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