The observatory was first proposed in 2001. Then called the Large-Aperture Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), it grew out of an earlier concept for an instrument that would study dark matter ...

The original instrument to occupy the 25-foot diameter dome was the 10.5-inch Bausch refracting telescope (f/15.5) installed in the brand new observatory in 1953. Bausch & Lomb Company gave the ...

It came just weeks after officials announced that the telescope would be dismantled amid safety fears, following damage to its support system. The Arecibo Observatory telescope was one of the ...

Early in the next decade, NASA plans to launch the James Webb Space Telescope, a much larger infrared observatory. "This is the golden age of astrophysics," says Lawrence. "A thousand years from ...

The Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope, located in a small observatory on the roof of Memorial Hall on the university's Charlottetown campus, is used by the physics department for astronomy education ...

The next phase of the project is a collaboration between the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO). “This collaboration with ...