These 100 pics are just a small glimpse into the magnificence of space.
This massive telescope named Super Kamiokande, lies under mount Kamioka near the city of Hida in Japan. It was designed to search for proton decay, keep watch for supernovae’s in the galaxy and study solar and atmospheric neutrinos.
No, these are not the photos from some space probe. French astronomer Thierry Legault has taken these pics with 356 mm catadioptric telescope and high sensitivity astrophotography camera.
A guy shared the photographs taken with the telescope which was built by his father.
The Arecibo Observatory is a radio telescope near the city of Arecibo in Puerto Rico. You may recognize it from various movies such as GoldenEye or The Losers, TV series like The X-Files or even video games (GoldenEye 007 or Just Cause 2).
Fyi: the observatory's 305 m (1,000 ft) radio telescope is the largest single-aperture telescope ever constructed.
The set of astonishing pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope – one of the largest and most versatile orbital telescopes that has recently celebrated its 22nd year of operation.
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