TAMPA — Six-year-old Allison Morales Santiz dropped her jaw as she stepped into the newly opened MOSI Digital Dome Theatre, ...

Construction of the world's largest telescope moves forward with progress of the structure's dome and housing for the primary mirror. The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Extremely Large ...

The original instrument to occupy the dome was the 10.5-inch Bausch telescope, which was installed in the new observatory building in 1953. The 25-foot diameter dome was necessary to encompass the ...

This out-of-this-world telescope is the biggest of its kind. It is made up of five mirrors that can gather 100 million times the light a human eye can and is contained by a steel dome, which ...

Rainbow over Herstmonceux in 1981. The observatory dome in the picture used to house Isaac Newton telescope, which is now situated at La Palma in the Canary Islands. | Credit: Barry Shimmon ...

Also knowing that the sunset objects are very low in the sky and setting fast, we set up a small telescope and binoculars on the roof to insure that we had flexibility for observing in case the view ...

Two observation domes offer a great view over Munich. Through a modern telescope with a professional zoom lens, the fascinating starry sky can be observed up close. Visitors should not miss to ...

The Equatorial Group is a group of six telescope domes, making up the primary observatory site. Whereas most telescope domes use a grey or white color, the Equatorial Group telescopes were built ...