Drenthe
In the spring of 1956, Dutch Queen Juliana set the world's largest radio telescope in motion in the Dutch village of Dwingeloo with a simple push of a button.
Star tower (observatory)
In the early 1960s, a brutalist observatory rose from the ground on an expansive polder in Utrecht. From March 1964 onwards, students and astronomers could climb the so-called Star Tower to gaze at the sky.
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