What Is Observatory
Channel: Trillion Thoughts
Date: 06/03/2017

What is an observatory?
An observatory is a location used for perceiving and registering terrestrial or celestial events. It is actually a room which contains astronomical telescopes or other scientific equipment for studying natural phenomena. The word telescope refers to a wide range of instruments detecting different regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. 

Astronomical observatories mainly include ground based observatories and space based observatories. 

To know how these observatories make observations and various types of telescopes that were used, do watch this video.

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