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 ...

Hale and Adams returned to the dome at 3 a.m. and got their first clear glimpse of the stars through the giant telescope.

Around 1,200 kilometres inland, on an icy plateau, a study pegs that a telescope on Dome Argus would outperform any other telescope. Not only would it be after to see further than any existing ...

Construction of the Extremely Large Telescope has reached another milestone, with the completion of the dome's steel skeleton. The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Extremely Large Telescope ...

And high above, comet Hale-Bopp hung suspended like a feathery ... One by one, stars winked on in a darkening sky. In each of the telescope domes, teams of astronomers prayed that the wind would ...