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Gran Telescopio Canarias Could Spot A Car’s Headlights In Australia. From Spain.

Light degrades the second it hits our atmosphere, making terrestrial astronomy and the search for dim or distant stars tricky. The Gran Telescopio Canarias observatory is the world’s largest single-aperture optical telescope, and it’s got some ingenious ways to compensate.

May 21, 2011
Science

Bright Lights Of Border Control Scare Astronomers’ Stars Away

There’s a reason you can’t see stars in the city – lights. Lights everywhere! They drown the sky’s bounty out, and apparently it’s even affecting Arizona astronomers, who are unfortunately situated right by the border… and the border patrol’s spotlights.

February 18, 2010

Korean Shipping Containers Repurposed As A Sunset Observatory

Shipping containers in my mind are forever associated with grim situations seen in TV shows like Dexter or The Wire, but in South Korea they can also be observatories for viewing sunsets.

February 14, 2009
Science

The World’s Coolest-Looking Observatories

Until they make an actual porno in space, io9s list of the world’s coolest looking observatories and shots from the Hubble will be the only space porn in town.

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