Like the wrecked Mayan remains one finds centuries later in the Latin American jungle, this Bloomington, Indiana, space observatory represents time moving on even with the most modern of endeavors. The Knightridge Space Observatory pictured above is a four-ton telescope built in 1936 and 1937. You can see many more images like this one and the one below (the Pip Ivan Observatory in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine) at
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