Meanings of astronomical observatories in английском

The obelisks served them as sun dials, and the pyramids as astronomical observatories.

The Earls of Rosse are well known for having established one of the best-equipped astronomical observatories in Europe in Birr, Co Offaly.

The world's most arid desert, located in Chile and small parts of Peru, Bolivia and Argentina, is also home to several astronomical observatories.

Part of this outer shell was occupied by astronomical observatories, machinery for controlling the planet's orbit, and great "docks" for interplanetary liners.

The endowment of astronomical observatories devoted to research, and not including that given for teaching, is estimated to amount to half a million dollars annually.

But the part of the statement that swung the most weight was, "Scientists in astronomical observatories have seen these strange objects with their own eyes."