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• From the point of view of earth-based observatories, the effect of the planet's orbit around the star is that the star observably wobbles.From the entry observably
• It’s fitting that the first national US observatory named for a female astronomer is in her honor.2020 January 7, Ashley Strickland, “First US observatory named in honor of a female astronomer, Vera Rubin”, in CNN. From the entry astronomer
• A new image reminds us of what the orbiting observatory has let us see.2020 April 24, Dennis Overbye, “Hubble Marks 30 Years of Seeing a Universe Being Born and Dying”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry let us see
• Already the first efforts at 'barcoding' entire ecological communities and creating 'genomic observatories' have begun.2016, John Parrington, Redesigning Life: How Genome Editing Will Transform the World, →ISBN. From the entry biocode
• Ground-based observatories have been collecting 0.2 - 20 TeV gamma rays from blazars for about twenty years.2015, Jonathan Biteau, David A. Williams, "The extragalactic background light, the Hubble constant, and anomalies: conclusions from 20…. From the entry extragalactic background light
• Instead it had to be calculated from its parallax as seen from two different observatories.2000, Fred W. Price, The Planet Observer's Handbook, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 192. From the entry Earth-grazing
• The instruments at this observatory were much admired and included an armillary sphere, a mural quadrant and a solstitial armil.1970, Philip Khuri Hitti, History of the Arabs, 10th edition, →ISBN, page 378. From the entry armill
• And Fresnel's countryman, Laurent Koechlin, of the Midi-Pyrénées observatory, thinks zone plates are the way to find out if there is life on other planets.2012 June 9, “Twinkle, twinkle, little planet”, in The Economist. From the entry zone plate
• One of my friends, the one who wept, did vow he'd never visit a bird observatory again and went back to train-spotting.1983, Bill Oddie, Gone Birding, London: Methuen, page 108. From the entry train spotting
• Thus records at British observatories as far west as Stokholm, Bardsey and Calf of Man will involve mainly individuals which have misorientated, or undertaken random dispersal prior to migration.1981, Nick Riddiford, Peter Findley, Seasonal Movements of Summer Migrants, page 82. From the entry misorientate
• More such announcements will likely come in the months to follow, as the first space observatory dedicated to hunting exoplanets, called COROT, begins full operation and researchers complete their calculations.2007 September 1, Alexander Hellemans, “Dangling a COROT”, in Scientific American, volume 297, number 3, archived from the original on 06…. From the entry exoplanet
• The summit of Mauna Kea is considered the ideal place to mount an astronomical observatory, for above the clouds there is only the stars and the skies are ideally transparent.2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 46. From the entry ideally

Meaning of observatory

1. noun A place where stars, planets and other celestial bodies are observed, usually through a telescope; also place for observing meteorological or other natural phenomena.
2. noun A lookout (vantage point with a view of the surrounding area).

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How do you use observatory in a sentence?

Observatory is used as a noun. For example: “From the point of view of earth-based observatories, the effect of the planet's orbit around the star is that the star observably wobbles.”

What is a short sentence with observatory?

“A new image reminds us of what the orbiting observatory has let us see.”

What does observatory mean?

Observatory means a place where stars, planets and other celestial bodies are observed, usually through a telescope; also place for observing meteorological or other natural phenomena.