World-famous Observatories from Space Available Online

The observatories include: 

•         The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), China. 
• Xinglong Observatory with Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope, China.
• Mauna Kea Observatories, USA.
• Apache Point Observatory, USA.
• Kitt Peak National Observatory, USA.
• Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, USA.
• Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico.
• Very Large Array, USA.
• Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array, Chile.
• Green Bank Telescope, USA.
• Parkes Observatory, New South Wales, Australia.
• South African Astronomical Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa.
• Very Large Telescope, Chile.
• European Extremely Large Telescope, Chile.
• Royal Observatory Greenwich, UK.
• Effelsberg Radio Telescope, Germany.
• RATAN-600 Radio Telescope, Russia.
• Lovell Telescope, UK.
• Gran Telescopio Canarias, Spain.
• Nobeyama Radio Observatory, Japan.
• Square Kilometre Array (SKA), South Africa.

See the satellite views of these world-famous observatories on the website of NODA. NODA is organized by theAerospace Information Research Institute （AIR) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and serves as one of the first of 20 national data centers established in 2019 by the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Finance of the People’s Republic of China.

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), China. (Credit: Changguang Satellite Technology Co. Ltd)

Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST), known as Guo Shoujing Telescope at the Xinglong Observatory, China. (Credit: Changguang Satellite Technology Co. Ltd)

Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico (Credit: Changguang Satellite Technology Co. Ltd)

Apache Point Observatory, USA. (Credit: Changguang Satellite Technology Co. Ltd)

Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, Chile. (Credit: Changguang Satellite Technology Co. Ltd)

Effelsberg Radio Telescope, Germany. (Credit: Changguang Satellite Technology Co. Ltd)

Green Bank Telescope, USA. (Credit: Changguang Satellite Technology Co. Ltd)  

Royal Observatory Greenwich, UK. (Credit: Changguang Satellite Technology Co. Ltd)

Kitt Peak National Observatory, USA. (Credit: Changguang Satellite Technology Co. Ltd)

Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, USA. (Credit: Changguang Satellite Technology Co. Ltd)

Gran Telescopio Canarias, Spain. (Credit: Changguang Satellite Technology Co. Ltd)

Lovell Telescope, UK. (Credit: Changguang Satellite Technology Co. Ltd)

Mauna Kea Observatories, USA. (Credit: Changguang Satellite Technology Co. Ltd)

South African Astronomical Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa. (Credit: Changguang Satellite Technology Co. Ltd)

Parkes Observatory, New South Wales, Australia. (Credit: Changguang Satellite Technology Co. Ltd)

Very Large Array, USA. (Credit: Changguang Satellite Technology Co. Ltd)

Nobeyama Radio Observatory, Japan. (Credit: Changguang Satellite Technology Co. Ltd)

European Extremely Large Telescope, Chile. (Credit: Changguang Satellite Technology Co. Ltd)

Square Kilometre Array (SKA), South Africa. (Credit: Changguang Satellite Technology Co. Ltd)

RATAN-600 Radio Telescope, Russia. (Credit: Changguang Satellite Technology Co. Ltd)

Very Large Telescope, Chile. (Credit: Changguang Satellite Technology Co. Ltd)