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Astrophysical Observatories Around the World
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Arecibo Observatory
Location: Arecibo, Puerto Rico; Major Discoveries: First radar maps of Venus' surface, Discovery of the first binary pulsar, Contribution to the detection of gravitational waves
Hubble Space Telescope
Location: Low Earth Orbit; Major Discoveries: Expansion rate of the universe, Exoplanet atmospheres, Black hole confirmation in galaxy centers
Keck Observatory
Location: Mauna Kea, Hawaii, USA; Major Discoveries: Evidence for supermassive black holes, Discoveries of many extrasolar planets, Observations of the cosmic web
James Webb Space Telescope
Location: L2 Lagrange Point; Major Discoveries: Study of the early universe, Observations of first galaxies, Analysis of exoplanet atmospheres
Spitzer Space Telescope
Location: Heliocentric orbit; Major Discoveries: Study of comets and asteroids in the solar system, Observations of remote galaxies, Mid-infrared images of the Milky Way
Chandra X-ray Observatory
Location: Low Earth Orbit; Major Discoveries: High-resolution X-ray images, Discovery of dark matter in galaxy clusters, Insights into the structure of quasars
Mauna Kea Observatories
Location: Mauna Kea, Hawaii, USA; Major Discoveries: Presence of water ice on Mercury, Observations of the most distant objects, Studies in infrared astronomy
South Pole Telescope (SPT)
Location: Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Antarctica; Major Discoveries: Detailed observations of the cosmic microwave background, Studies of dark energy, Clusters of galaxies via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect
Very Large Telescope (VLT)
Location: Cerro Paranal, Chile; Major Discoveries: Detailed images of planets, First direct image of an exoplanet, Study of supermassive black holes
Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Location: Low Earth Orbit; Major Discoveries: Gamma-ray burst observations, Mapping the Milky Way's gamma-ray sources, Discoveries about pulsars
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