observatory
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The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory telescope was launched in 2004, and was originally designed for a two-year mission.
From Barron's • Jun. 30, 2026
Exxon started giving money for climate research to Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in the late 1970s.
From Salon • Jun. 26, 2026
Lead author Dino Chih-Chun Hsu, a researcher at CIERA, explained the significance of these measurements in a W. M. Keck Observatory press release:
From Science Daily • Jun. 13, 2026
Peter Walsh from the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford told BBC Verify one backlog was being shifted to another.
From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026
As soon as he was strong enough to travel by train again, he resumed his weekly trips to Amsterdam to get Naval Observatory time.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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