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Shanghai Astronomy Museum. Shanghai Astronomy Museum is a planetarium opened in 2021 in Lingang New City, Pudong New Area district, Shanghai. Its dome covers 38,000 square meters. It is the world's largest planetarium in terms of building scale. [1] The planetarium, designed by New York City based Ennead Architects, serves as an educational and ...
Tianma 65-meter Radio Telescope. Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO), is an astronomical observatory in Shanghai. It has a long history of astrometry and also operates the 25-meter (82 ft) Sheshan radio telescope as part of the Chinese VLBI array and the European VLBI Network (EVN).
Pages in category "Astronomical observatories in Washington, D.C." The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
National Pinball Museum [ 17 ] Newseum, founded 1997 in Rosslyn, Virginia, moved to Washington in 2008, closed December 2019 and is currently seeking new location. [ 18 ] Washington Doll's House and Toy Museum, founded in 1975, closed 2004. [ 19 ][ 20 ] Washington Gallery of Modern Art.
Charles Alcock, known for a number of major works related to massive compact halo objects, was named the third director of the CfA in 2004. Today Alcock oversees one of the largest and most productive astronomical institutes in the world, [ 1 ] with more than 850 staff and an annual budget in excess of $100 million.
Hanyu Pinyin. Zhū Nénghóng. Zhu Nenghong ( Chinese: 朱能鸿; 10 November 1939 – 8 March 2024) was a Chinese astronomical optical telescope specialist who was chief engineer of the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He was a member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
NASA Headquarters. The Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building at 300 E Street SW in Washington, D.C. houses NASA leadership who provide overall guidance and direction to the US government executive branch agency NASA, under the leadership of the NASA administrator. NASA Headquarters is organized into four Mission Directorates: Aeronautics ...
The U.S. Naval Observatory operates two “Master Clock” facilities, one in Washington, DC, and the other at Schriever SFB near Colorado Springs, CO. The primary facility, in Washington, D.C. maintains 57 HP / Agilent / Symmetricom 5071A-001 high performance cesium atomic clocks and 24 hydrogen masers.