Sentence examples for optical observatories from inspiring English sources

Optical observatories have a long history.

Most major optical observatories are located on high mountains, well away from cities and their reflected lights.

The Siding Spring Observatory was originally a field station for the Mount Stromlo site, but it has become in itself one of the most important optical observatories in the world.

Two optical observatories and the orbiting Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer also tuned in.

The Chilean site is less than 10 kilometers from the ESO's Paranal Observatory, which has significant infrastructure like the four, 8.2-meter optical observatories of the Very Large Telescope already in place.

In the imaging obtained by optical observatories, such as the Hubble Space Telescope, dust manifests itself as dark lanes or patches that are obscuring the light from the stars.

Hubble Space Telescope (HST), the most sophisticated optical observatory ever placed into orbit around Earth.

The Maya people of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico carried out the same practice at El Caracol, a dome-shaped structure somewhat resembling a modern optical observatory.

The large reflecting telescope was the most sophisticated optical observatory ever to orbit Earth, and the photographs it collected ultimately revolutionized the field of astronomy.

At the Siding Spring optical observatory in northwest New South Wales, astronomers recently voiced concerns over a proposal for a new coal seam gas project, fearing it could lead to increased light pollution in the area.

One of the jewels in the crown of the astronomical world of the future--a project that Canadians are hoping to be part of--is the 30-Meter Telescope (TMT), which will be the world's largest optical observatory when it is completed, hopefully in 2015.