How to Use observatory in a Sentence

observatory

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  • See if there’s an observatory near you with a public viewing on the night of the event!
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 5 Jan. 2024
  • But the observatory, 80 miles south of the coastal city of Antofagasta, is one of the best sites in the world for looking into space.
    — Maggie Shipstead Anthony Cotsifas, New York Times, 10 May 2023
  • But for those who want to sleep among the stars, there’s room for 14 guests to stay in a residence attached to the observatory.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
  • In Episode 1, as Cooper Howard is riding away from the mushroom cloud of doom, the observatory is in the shot.
    — Meredith Woerner, Variety, 21 June 2024
  • When this news came out, astronomers took note, and many rebelled against the choice of the observatory’s name.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 11 June 2024
  • After exiting and locking your car, cross the road to the trail that takes you to the observatory.
    — Vicki Salemi, Chron, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Now the camera waits in its new clean room on the third level of the eight-level observatory.
    — Ethan Baron, The Mercury News, 22 May 2024
  • The progress, or lack of it, in the climate fight is measured in an observatory on the shoulder of Mauna Loa, in Hawaii, the largest volcano in the world.
    — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2022
  • The team tapped the famed observatory to snap a series of five photos of the comet earlier this year.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 13 Apr. 2022
  • The famous observatory was closed, but the view of downtown LA was not.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 16 Feb. 2022
  • The glow of the most distant galaxies, the kind that the observatory was designed to detect, takes eons to reach us.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 22 July 2022
  • Look for its iconic textile-block façade in the distance, east of the observatory, in the Los Feliz Hills.
    — Teena Apeles, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2022
  • And if there’s no planet to be found, even with a bigger and better observatory on the case?
    — Briley Lewis, Popular Science, 2 May 2024
  • Lovecraft lived less than a one-mile bike ride from the observatory.
    — Carlos R. Muñoz, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Feb. 2022
  • The three-story observatory on top of the Western Hemisphere’s tallest building offers some of the best sights in the world.
    — Sam Dangremond, Town & Country, 6 July 2022
  • At the end of the 19th century, the Paris observatory was one of the world's great centers of astronomy.
    — H.j. McCracken, Ars Technica, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Spend your days scuba diving the reefs of the Kona coast and your nights stargazing at the Mauna Kea observatory.
    — Lila Harron Battis, Travel + Leisure, 9 July 2024
  • The tours involve a trek to near the summit of Mount Graham and viewing the observatory's three telescopes.
    — Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 23 Feb. 2023
  • An observatory, designed to look like a spaceship that has made a hasty landing on Earth, is due to open in April.
    — Quartz, 2 Feb. 2023
  • The observatory features an 8.4-meter wide-field telescope that will scan the Southern Hemisphere’s skies over the course of a decade-long project.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Jan. 2024
  • The observatory said Sunday morning that 1.3 inches of snow and sleet had fallen on the peaks over the weekend.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2022
  • The observatory's image of the Southern Ring Nebula shows rings of gas and dust expelled by a star in the final throes of its life.
    — Denise Chow, NBC News, 12 July 2022
  • The top floors of the Legends Tower will feature a public observatory and an eatery.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Hike the surrounding hills at sunrise, try the spa’s signature vinothérapie treatments sourced straight from the site’s grapevines, and stargaze in the new observatory.
    — Leah Silverman, Town & Country, 11 Apr. 2023
  • But the observatory always reemerges, ready to return to work.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 25 Feb. 2022
  • On the terrace in front of the observatory, the Jenkins family from Atlanta take turns peering through rotating scopes at the mountains, the city, the ocean and the crisp blue sky.
    — Tyrone Beason, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
  • In spite of the danger, the atmosphere at the observatory is mostly one of excitement.
    — Amanda Gokee, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Feb. 2023
  • There are monthly events around the new moon, where visitors can gaze at stars and deep-sky objects through the telescope at the Sky’s the Limit observatory.
    — Nathan Tavares, Travel + Leisure, 8 July 2024
  • That’s why observatories tend to be far from civilization, where the sky is darkest.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Yet the observatory also owes its success in part due to a state-of-the-art camera and software that filters out background noise to focus in on candidate impactors.
    — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024

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