The digital photograph was made with a camera mounted on a telescope tracking the stars through dark skies above a camp ground in Virginia, USA.

这张数码照片是用架在能跟踪天体的望远镜上的照相机拍的，于美国弗吉尼亚一露营基地。

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They're checking out the candidates with ground-based instruments as well as orbiting assets like the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope.

他们正使用地面仪器以及绕轨道运行的仪器如哈勃太空望远镜和斯皮策太空望远镜检查这些候选恒星。

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It is home to ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), the flagship facility for European ground-based astronomy.

这也是欧洲的旗舰级地面天文设备，欧洲南方天文台(eso)超大望远镜(VLT)所在之处。

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This, combined with a new digital camera developed for it by Mitsubishi Electric, will make it the most powerful ground-based optical telescope around.

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Thanks to observations made with the Gemini ground-based optical telescope in Hawaii, it quickly became clear that GRB130427A was superbright primarily because it lay only a few billion light years away.

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One of five European Space Agency missions being considered for launch in the early 2020's, Nasa also has a series of exoplanet projects at various stages of development, and both the James Webb Space Telescope and ground based observatories are getting in on the act.

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