At the moment, the telescopes it relies on are powerful enough only to detect beams of radio waves pointed directly at Earth.
The park attracts a lot of foot traffic, and the telescopes draw in curious passers-by to stop for a few moments to stare up at the night sky.
To observe such a distant, faint object, scientists had to collect light through the telescopes over 37 hours, letting more and more light accumulate to see as deep as possible.
Like, just as one example, the telescopes they sell.
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The design calls for around 3, 000 individual receivers arranged rather like a spiral galaxy, with most of the telescopes concentrated in an inner core, and the rest arranged into a set of arms up to 3, 000km (about 2, 000 miles) long.
"An initial visual assessment this morning indicated that no telescopes appear to have received major damage, but the impact of the fire on the instruments will not be known until a technical inspection of the telescopes can be done when the site is safe, " it said.
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So it remains to be seen which, if either, of the new telescopes will win the prizes.
Given the different strengths of the two telescopes it would be good, say the scientists involved, if both were built.
He got his own back on Ryle, for instance, by claiming in 1951 that some of the signals being detected by the radio telescopes that astronomers were then constructing came from outside the Milky Way galaxy in which the Earth resides.
Point the binoculars or telescopes at the sun -- without looking through the lenses -- and aim the other end onto a piece of paper or cardboard.
Engineers from both the honeycomb and the thin-mirror camps, who fought bitterly over the contract to make the Gemini mirrors, will be watching closely, to see which of the two pairs of telescopes produces the better images.
Both Heads of State highlighted the effective collaboration in the fields of astronomy and astro-engineering which will allow the operation of the LSST and ALMA telescopes in the northern Chile, involving an investment of 1.5 billion dollars, with a close collaboration between public and private academic and research institutions in both countries.
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The comet is already visible through telescopes in the Southern Hemisphere, and it should swing into view over the Northern Hemisphere beginning around March 8.
Esa's science budget - the part that makes space telescopes to study the cosmos, and the like - received a "flat cash" settlement of 2.5bn euros.
The Atacama's main advantage for optical telescopes is the stillness of the air, which stops stars twinkling.
The ability to construct large telescopes for a fraction of the usual cost could transform astronomy.
The observatory, which is named after the physicist who discovered the showers caused by cosmic rays, has 1, 600 detectors on the ground to record the arrival of such cascades and 24 telescopes pointing at the sky to locate the flashes of light produced by the collisions that create them.
Timothy Davis of the European Southern Observatory and colleagues made use of the Carma array of telescopes in California, US, looking specifically for the radiation coming from molecules of carbon monoxide.
The US agency was recently gifted two Hubble-class spy telescopes by the National Reconnaissance Office, but even with this donation Nasa is short of the hundreds of millions of dollars needed to turn one of them into a dark mission.
Since the finale occurred in the dark, telescopes from Earth did not capture it.
The observatory has 24 telescopes and 1, 600 detectors covering an area about the size of Lancashire.
He describes research using data from the largest terrestrial telescopes and from successive generations of space observatories.
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The sites of the planned optical telescopes are near big settlements, making it easy to equip them with electricity and other goodies.
That allows the use of telescopes and arrays with far better resolution.
The largest optical telescopes on earth can distinguish between things that are separated by about one second of arc (a 1, 296, 000th of the celestial equator).
And thanks to the National Capital Astronomers and the Northern Virginia Astronomy Club for their help in setting up their telescopes for the public to use.
The work, which is described in the journal Nature, actually draws on observations made by several astronomical facilities, including the Keck and James Clerk Maxwell telescopes in Hawaii and the Hubble Space Telescope in orbit around the Earth.
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The nearest bit of the nebula, though, is a mere 1, 200 light years away and the two radio telescopes can detect radio signals from a portion of it that is 8 light minutes (150m kilometres or 90m miles) across.
The team went on to use data from a range of other telescopes including the Very Large Telescope, the Two Micron All-Sky Survey and the Spitzer space telescope - each of which sees in a particular set of colours, in turn evidencing stars of varying ages.
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