On March 26, China’s National Earth Observation Data Center (NODA) and National Astronomical Data Center (NADC) published jointly an atlas of remote sensing for World- famous Observatories from Space. The imagery, produced by the Changguang Satellite Technology Co. Ltd. (CGSTL), comprises 21 high-resolution remote sensing images captured by its Jilin-1 satellite when observing the Earth.

The observatories include:  

• The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), China. 
• Xinglong Observatory with Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope, China.
• Mauna Kea Observatories, USA.
• Apache Point Observatory, USA.
• Kitt Peak National Observatory, USA.
• Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, USA.
• Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico.
• Very Large Array, USA.
• Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array, Chile.
• Green Bank Telescope, USA.
• Parkes Observatory, New South Wales, Australia.
• South African Astronomical Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa.
• Very Large Telescope, Chile.
• European Extremely Large Telescope, Chile.
• Royal Observatory Greenwich, UK.
• Effelsberg Radio Telescope, Germany.
• RATAN-600 Radio Telescope, Russia.
• Lovell Telescope, UK.
• Gran Telescopio Canarias, Spain.
• Nobeyama Radio Observatory, Japan.
• Square Kilometre Array (SKA), South Africa.

See the satellite views of these world-famous observatories on the website of NODA. NODA is organized by theAerospace Information Research Institute （AIR)under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and serves as one of the first of 20 national data centers established in 2019 by the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Finance of the People’s Republic of China. 

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), China. (Credit: Changguang Satellite Technology Co. Ltd)

Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST), known as Guo Shoujing Telescope at the Xinglong Observatory, China. (Credit: Changguang Satellite Technology Co. Ltd) 

Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico (Credit: Changguang Satellite Technology Co. Ltd)

Apache Point Observatory, USA. (Credit: Changguang Satellite Technology Co. Ltd)

Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, Chile. (Credit: Changguang Satellite Technology Co. Ltd)