The Netherlands
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.
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.
Wales
Wales' largest optical telescope has been on Swansea's coastline since the 1990s. But when the municipality increased the rent, the Swansea Astronomical Society cut and ran.
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