Enjoy learning about space and astronomy? Visit the Royal Observatory in Greenwich and tour the universe at London's only Planetarium. | Royal Museums Greenwich
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Enjoy learning about space and astronomy? Visit the Royal Observatory in Greenwich and tour the universe at London's only Planetarium. | Royal Museums Greenwich
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Learn how John Harrison became a world-famous clock maker who helped to solve the problem of finding longitude at sea with the H4 pocket watch. | Royal Museums Greenwich
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Learn how John Harrison became a world-famous clock maker who helped to solve the problem of finding longitude at sea with the H4 pocket watch. | Royal Museums Greenwich
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Discover the clocks that changed the world and stand on the world-famous Prime Meridian Line at the home of GMT this spring. | Royal Museums Greenwich
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Discover the clocks that changed the world and stand on the world-famous Prime Meridian Line at the home of GMT this spring. | Royal Museums Greenwich
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👑 350 years ago today on 22 June 1675, a royal warrant from Charles II ordered the building of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. 👑 He had been persuaded by leading scientists that building an observatory would bring Britain closer to working out how to determine longitude at sea - a breakthrough that would boost the country's trade prospects by making global navigation easier, safer and more efficient. 👑 Over the next three and a half centuries, numerous scientific discoveries and advanceme
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👑 350 years ago today on 22 June 1675, a royal warrant from Charles II ordered the building of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. 👑 He had been persuaded by leading scientists that building an observatory would bring Britain closer to working out how to determine longitude at sea - a breakthrough that would boost the country's trade prospects by making global navigation easier, safer and more efficient. 👑 Over the next three and a half centuries, numerous scientific discoveries and advanceme
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125 years and counting: the Royal Observatory in Greenwich
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125 years and counting: the Royal Observatory in Greenwich
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Discover something new at the Royal Observatory 🔭 ✅ Make memories on the world-famous Meridian Line ✅ Follow in the footsteps of leading astronomers ✅ Enjoy sweeping London views over Greenwich Park Buy your tickets now 🎟️ | Royal Museums Greenwich
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Discover something new at the Royal Observatory 🔭 ✅ Make memories on the world-famous Meridian Line ✅ Follow in the footsteps of leading astronomers ✅ Enjoy sweeping London views over Greenwich Park Buy your tickets now 🎟️ | Royal Museums Greenwich
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How do you create a modern working Observatory in a 19th-century building? Find out more about the Royal Observatory's brand new astrographic telescope and discover how an Observatory in London can take awe-inspiring photographs of the night sky. 🔭 www.rmg.co.uk/FirstLight 🔭 | Royal Museums Greenwich
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#OTD 1675: King Charles II laid the foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory. Here's Richard Dimbleby visiting #OTD in 1960 | BBC Archive
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The new £77m project at Royal Observatory Greenwich
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🏅2025 marks the 350th anniversary of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. 🏅Historic home to Greenwich Mean Time and the Prime Meridian of the World, the Royal Observatory is one of the most important scientific sites in the world. 🏅We're proud to share that @royalmintuk are marking this historic anniversary with a beautiful new UK £2 coin! 🏅The coin pays tribute to the Royal Observatory with a reverse design that features the Shepherd Gate Clock, the constellation Ursa Minor, the star Polaris a
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🕰️ British Science Week kicked off yesterday, and with this year’s theme being ‘Time’, where better to get involved than the home of Greenwich Mean Time - the Royal Observatory? We’ve got an exciting array of events happening themed around time from now until 17 March including workshops, talks, tours, craft sessions and more. 🔴 To celebrate this exciting week in STEM, we’re taking a closer look at the striking red time ball on top of the Royal Observatory’s Flamsteed House. Our Curator of Tim
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Home to the Royal Observatory, National Maritime Museum, Cutty Sark & Queen's House gallery | Royal Museums Greenwich
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Watch the partial solar eclipse live from Royal Observatory, Greenwich
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There's been a wealth of out-of-this-world expertise at the Royal Observatory for 350 years, and now more than ever, it's there for everyone 🔭 Head up the hill this summer and you can get hands-on with a telescope, explore the surface of Mars, try your hand at using a sextant and even see the invisible! See the link in our bio or below for more on how to attend our weekend Observatory Unlocked sessions: for an extra special experience, book for the weekend of 8-10 August when we will be celebra
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The Royal Observatory in Greenwich is the historic home of British astronomy, Greenwich Mean Time and the world-famous Meridian Line. Established in the 17th century, it was from here that the great scientists of the time precisely mapped the stars to help navigate at sea. Today, you can stand aside the Meridian Line with one foot in the eastern hemisphere and one in the west and marvel at the Great Equatorial Telescope, one of the world’s largest historic telescopes before strolling through Gre
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Welcome back to the Royal Observatory Greenwich! Visit the home of GMT and stand on the Meridian Line, pre-book your ticket today. | Royal Museums Greenwich
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It’s not Mean Time, it’s Wicked Time. Greenwich has officially become GreenWitch as the cast of Wicked joined us at the Royal Observatory to turn the Queen’s House a rather ghoulish shade of green. | Royal Museums Greenwich
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On location at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich in southeast London, HistoryExtra's Elinor Evans finds out more about the red ball that drops each day at 1pm, visible for miles around. Joined by Louise Devoy, Senior Curator of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, she finds out more about this innovative time signal. Discover how astronomers, mathematicians, and global powers collaborated to create Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) in the full video, available now on HistoryExtra's YouTube channel. (Images
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It's TIME to reopen! ⏰🕰️⏲️ We're so excited that the Royal Observatory is open again. Book your visit and see the iconic Time Ball drop at exactly 1pm each day. Learn more about the history of the Time Ball: http://bit.ly/TimeBall | Royal Museums Greenwich
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Visit the Royal Observatory in Greenwich and see technology that changed the world | Royal Museums Greenwich
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🪐You might have heard that there's a unique planetary alignment or 'parade' happening at the moment. Let Royal Observatory astronomer Ed Bloomer here give you a rundown of what that's all about. 🪐While the planets are not in a straight line, or all lined up behind one another as some online sources might be suggesting, January-February does provide a great opportunity to see many planets at once on a clear night. 🪐This isn't a phenomenon unique to a particular day, either! It's visible throug
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One day to go for our special solar eclipse live stream to be broadcasted directly from the Royal Observatory Greenwich, tomorrow, at 10.08am BST 🔭 | Royal Museums Greenwich
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🔭Back to work, back to school and the days are getting shorter, time to plan an outing to take advantage of the last of the mild weather! Head up the hill to the Royal Observatory, for a fun and fascinating day exploring time and space. | Royal Museums Greenwich
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🪐 Saturn gained the nickname 'the jewel of the Solar System' thanks to its magnificent rings. However, on Sunday 23 March the iconic rings will 'disappear' from our perspective. 🪐 Learn more about this uncommon event with Royal Observatory astronomer Jake Foster! | Royal Museums Greenwich
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Do you know the history of Greenwich Mean Time? ⏱️ Celebrate the history and scientific developments achieved at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich with our latest Stamps & Collectibles. | Royal Mail
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