Logo
Pattern

Discover published sets by community

Explore tens of thousands of sets crafted by our community.

Famous Astronomical Observatories

12

Flashcards

0/12

Still learning
StarStarStarStar

South Pole Telescope

StarStarStarStar

Antarctica; studies include observations of cosmic microwave background radiation to understand the nature of dark energy and neutrinos.

StarStarStarStar

Green Bank Observatory

StarStarStarStar

West Virginia, USA; discoveries include the first millisecond pulsar and observational work on interstellar chemistry.

StarStarStarStar

Lick Observatory

StarStarStarStar

California, USA; discoveries include several moons of Jupiter, and helped in measuring the speed of light.

StarStarStarStar

Arecibo Observatory

StarStarStarStar

Puerto Rico; contributed significantly to the fields of radar astronomy and radio astronomy, and notable for its SETI program before its collapse in 2020.

StarStarStarStar

Chandra X-ray Observatory

StarStarStarStar

Space-based; studies include detailed X-ray images of galaxy clusters, supernova remnants, and black holes.

StarStarStarStar

Kitt Peak National Observatory

StarStarStarStar

Arizona, USA; known for solar observations and discoveries of cometary bodies.

StarStarStarStar

Paranal Observatory

StarStarStarStar

Atacama Desert, Chile; hosts the Very Large Telescope (VLT), contributed to the discovery of the accelerating universe.

StarStarStarStar

Very Large Array

StarStarStarStar

New Mexico, USA; studies include radio images of the Sun and detailed observations of black holes and neutron stars.

StarStarStarStar

Palomar Observatory

StarStarStarStar

California, USA; known for the discovery of numerous comets, asteroids, and dwarf planets.

StarStarStarStar

Hubble Space Telescope

StarStarStarStar

Orbiting Earth, discoveries include the Hubble Deep Field, the rate of expansion of the universe, and the presence of dark energy.

StarStarStarStar

La Silla Observatory

StarStarStarStar

Atacama Desert, Chile; studies include the first direct image of an exoplanet.

StarStarStarStar

Mauna Kea Observatories

StarStarStarStar

Hawaii, USA; site of many telescopes including Keck, which discovered evidence of supermassive black holes.

Know
0
Still learning
Click to flip
Know
0
Logo

© Hypatia.Tech. 2024 All rights reserved.