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Famous Astronomical Observatories
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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.
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.
Palomar Observatory
California, USA; known for the discovery of numerous comets, asteroids, and dwarf planets.
La Silla Observatory
Atacama Desert, Chile; studies include the first direct image of an exoplanet.
Hubble Space Telescope
Orbiting Earth, discoveries include the Hubble Deep Field, the rate of expansion of the universe, and the presence of dark energy.
Very Large Array
New Mexico, USA; studies include radio images of the Sun and detailed observations of black holes and neutron stars.
Kitt Peak National Observatory
Arizona, USA; known for solar observations and discoveries of cometary bodies.
South Pole Telescope
Antarctica; studies include observations of cosmic microwave background radiation to understand the nature of dark energy and neutrinos.
Lick Observatory
California, USA; discoveries include several moons of Jupiter, and helped in measuring the speed of light.
Paranal Observatory
Atacama Desert, Chile; hosts the Very Large Telescope (VLT), contributed to the discovery of the accelerating universe.
Mauna Kea Observatories
Hawaii, USA; site of many telescopes including Keck, which discovered evidence of supermassive black holes.
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