This dimension names where an observatory is actually sited, whether on a mountaintop, in orbit or elsewhere. Wikipedia defines an observatory as "a location used for observing terrestrial, marine, or celestial events," and its location is often chosen specifically to improve what it can observe. Browsing this way collects every observatory built in the same place or type of place.
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1. Wikipedia: Radio telescope
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Radio waves from space were first detected by engineer Karl Guthe Jansky in 1932 at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey using an antenna built to study radio receiver noise.
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