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21st century

This dimension groups observatories by the year they began operating. Wikipedia notes that observatories have long been built for disciplines including "astronomy, climatology/meteorology, geophysics, oceanography and volcanology," with new instruments continually replacing older ones as technology improves. Browsing by operational start year lets a visitor compare observatories that came online in the same period.

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21st century
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Akari

21st century

AstroSat

21st century

Atacama Cosmology Telescope

21st century

Atacama Large Millimeter Array

21st century

Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder

21st century

Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment

21st century

CHEOPS

21st century

Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope

21st century

Euclid (spacecraft)

21st century

Event Horizon Telescope

21st century

Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope

21st century

Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope

21st century

Gaia

21st century

Gran Telescopio Canarias

21st century

Green Bank Telescope

21st century

Herschel Space Observatory

21st century

INTEGRAL

21st century

James Webb Space Telescope

21st century

Kepler Space Telescope

21st century

Large Binocular Telescope

21st century

LOFAR

21st century

MeerKAT

21st century

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

21st century

Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory

21st century

NuSTAR

21st century

Planck (spacecraft)

21st century

Solar Dynamics Observatory

21st century

South Pole Telescope

21st century

Southern African Large Telescope

21st century

Spitzer Space Telescope

21st century

Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite

21st century

Vera C. Rubin Observatory

21st century

Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer

21st century

Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe

21st century
Sources
1. Wikipedia: History of the telescope
Wikimedia FoundationHistory of the telescope, lead section
Quote, History of the telescope, lead section
The history of the telescope can be traced to before the invention of the earliest known telescope, which appeared in 1608 in the Netherlands, when a patent was submitted by Hans Lippershey, an eyeglass maker.
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Encyclopedia Britannica: Space Exploration
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