Not sure if this is the old Cointe Observatory in Belgium (sadly, not old New New York), or Plan...

This looks like an ultra-modern playground, but it...  ...ern playground, but it's actually an astronomical observatory in Jaipur, India. It was built on orders from Mah...

The Sphinx Observatory is the highest-built structure in Europe, at 3,57...  ...such a high altitude. Read more about the Sphinx Observatory , and see more amazing pictures at Kuriositas. Lin...

(vimeo link) The Paranal Observatory is a Very Large Telescope on Cerro Paranal mounta...

(vimeo link) Get a good look at the workings of...  ...ink) Get a good look at the workings of the Keck Observatory atop atop Mauna Kea volcano in Hawai'i. I can't s...

Image: NSF/B. GudbjartssonWhat's worth hundreds of...  ...t - rather, it's the IceCube, a wonderfully named observatory that scientists will use to search for neutrinos:...  ...450 meters below the surface. And the body of the observatory is the ice itself, an abundant medium with an ast...