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One of Canada's premier radio observatories sits in a radio-quiet valley outside Penticton.

In the high desert east of Bend, the University of Oregon maintains a research observatory on a remote mountain peak.

An observatory with a 54-meter-wide radio telescope sits in the mountains of Armenia.

An amateur telescope-making club has been gathering at this Vermont site for more than a century.

The headquarters of one of Japan’s leading astronomy research institutions features several historic observatory facilities and a 2,000-year-old burial mound.

A 132-year-old telescope continues to keep watch over the night skies above Providence.

This public observatory is home to the "celestial cannon," the longest pointable telescope in the world.

Even though some of the buildings date back to the Victorian era, this research institute is still involved in cutting-edge astronomy research.