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' 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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