Karl Jansky Monument

One of the world's most advanced radio observatories sprawls across the Atacama Desert.

A one-of-a-kind sundial at the Very Large Array honors a radio astronomy pioneer, incorporating the original piers from his breakthrough radio telescope.

Scotland's claim to the prime meridian was laid 200 years prior to the one in Greenwich.

One of Canada's premier radio observatories sits in a radio-quiet valley outside Penticton.

In the high desert east of Bend, the University of Oregon maintains a research observatory on a remote mountain peak.

An amateur telescope-making club has been gathering at this Vermont site for more than a century.

The headquarters of one of Japan’s leading astronomy research institutions features several historic observatory facilities and a 2,000-year-old burial mound.

An installation that makes understanding the size of the universe a walk in the park.