This dimension names the agency or institution that operates an observatory. Wikipedia notes that observatories serve disciplines from "astronomy, climatology/meteorology, geophysics, oceanography and volcanology," work usually carried out by a specific university, government agency or research institute. Browsing this way collects every observatory run by the same operator.
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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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