Observatories
7 questions tagged Observatories — spanning every one of the seven Ws.
Where is the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array located?
ALMA is on the Chajnantor Plateau in northern Chile.
Where is the Very Large Telescope located?
The VLT is on Cerro Paranal in northern Chile.
How do radio telescopes see parts of the universe that optical telescopes cannot?
They detect radio waves emitted by cold gas, pulsars, galaxies, and other sources that may be invisible in normal light. Radio waves also pass through dust that blocks visible light.
Where is the largest telescope array in radio astronomy located?
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array is in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. Its high-altitude site sits on the Chajnantor Plateau.
Where is the world’s largest optical telescope being built?
The Extremely Large Telescope is being built in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. Its site is on Cerro Armazones.
Where is the Virgo gravitational-wave detector located?
The Virgo detector is located near Pisa, Italy, in Cascina. It works with LIGO to detect gravitational waves.
Whose invention made it possible to photograph the night sky on a large scale?
George Ellery Hale pioneered giant telescopes and modern astrophysical observatories. His leadership helped produce some of the most important early astronomical imaging.