Rainbow over Herstmonceux in 1981. The observatory dome in the picture used to house Isaac Newton telescope, which is now situated at La Palma in the Canary Islands. | Credit: Barry Shimmon ...

The Equatorial Group is a group of six telescope domes, making up the primary observatory site. Whereas most telescope domes use a grey or white color, the Equatorial Group telescopes were built ...

From the outside, a planetarium and an observatory might look a somewhat similar, but it's what's inside that counts.

Six-year-old Allison Morales Santiz dropped her jaw as she stepped into the newly opened MOSI Digital Dome Theatre, where the ...

The construction of the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) in Chile's Atacama Desert has reached a significant milestone with the completion of its dome's frame. The ELT, which will be the world’s ...

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The ELT could identify biosignatures on planets in our solar system as well as orbiting Proxima Centauri within hours.

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