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Famous Observatories Around the World
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Hubble Space Telescope
Earth orbit, Key discoveries include the Hubble Deep Field and accelerating universe.
Mauna Kea Observatories
Hawaii, USA, Home to some of the world's largest telescopes, including the twin Keck telescopes.
Very Large Telescope (VLT)
Paranal Observatory, Chile, Discovered the first direct image of an exoplanet.
LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory)
USA, with locations in Washington and Louisiana, First detection of gravitational waves in 2015.
Square Kilometre Array (SKA)
Planned for South Africa and Australia, It will be the world’s largest radio telescope once completed.
Palomar Observatory
California, USA, First observed quasi-stellar radio sources (quasars).
Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)
Chajnantor plateau, Chile, Revolutionized our understanding of star formation and protoplanetary disks.
Arecibo Observatory
Puerto Rico, Contributed to the understanding of pulsars and the mapping of the surface of Venus and Mercury.
Chandra X-ray Observatory
Earth orbit, Provided unprecedented X-ray images of supernova remnants and clusters of galaxies.
Observatoire de Paris
Paris, France, Played a central role in the development of celestial mechanics and astrometry.
James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT)
Mauna Kea Observatories, Hawaii, USA, Has made significant contributions to the study of cosmic dust and gas.
Spitzer Space Telescope
Earth-trailing solar orbit, Studied comets and asteroids, brown dwarfs, exoplanets, and distant galaxies.
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