Physics 101 - Astronomy - List of various observatories

Space-based Observatories:

Hubble Space Telescope (NASA and ESA)
http://www.stsci.edu/portal/
http://hubblesite.org/
Hubble is a UV, Visible, & near-Infrared imaging & spectroscopy telescope.

Spitzer Space Infrared Telescope
http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/
Spitzer is a thermal infrared imaging & spectroscopy telescope.

Chandra X-Ray Observatory
http://chandra.harvard.edu/
Chandra does X-ray imaging and spectroscopy.

X-ray Multi-Mirror (XMM-Newton) X-Ray Observatory
http://sci.esa.int/xmm-newton/
http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/xmm/xmm.html
XMM-Newton does X-ray imaging and spectroscopy.

Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE)
http://fuse.pha.jhu.edu/
FUSE did Far-Ultraviolet spectroscopy (no longer operating)

Compton Gamma-ray Observatory
http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/cgro/
(no longer operating, de-orbited)

Swift - Gamma-Ray Burst Mission
http://swift.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
http://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/

NASA Space Science
http://science.nasa.gov/

ESA (European Space Agency) science
http://sci.esa.int/home/

Ground-based observatories:

European Southern Observatory
http://www.eso.org/public/

Keck Observatory (Hawaii)
http://www.keckobservatory.org/

National Radio Astronomy Observatory (several sites):
http://www.nrao.edu/

Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array
http://www.almaobservatory.org/

There are other types of Astronomy research, which involve detection of particles such as muons and neutrinos:

High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center
http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/
An archive for extreme-ultraviolet (EUV), X-ray, and gamma-ray astronomy, and studies of the Cosmic Microwave Background

AMANDA - Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array (turned off in 2009)
http://www.amanda.uci.edu/

IceCube Neutrino Observatory (replaces AMANDA)
http://icecube.wisc.edu/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IceCube

The ANTARES project has a detector in the deep Mediterranean Sea detecting muons from high-energy astrophysical neutrinos.
http://antares.in2p3.fr/Overview/index.html
Animations of the detection process are shown at
http://www.nikhef.nl/~t61/a3d/animation/

ANITA is a specialized neutrino detector in Antarctica
http://www.phys.hawaii.edu/~anita/

Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (6800 feet under ground in Ontario, Canada)
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/

Gran Sasso (Italian Alps)
http://www.lngs.infn.it/

Super-kamiokande (Japan)
http://www-sk.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/sk/index-e.html
http://www-sk.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/sk/gallery/build/sk_build06.jpg
http://www-sk.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/sk/gallery/build/sk_build08.jpg

The LIGO project at Hanford and Louisiana searches for gravitational waves
http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/

Dark matter search at Boulby mine, UK
http://hepwww.rl.ac.uk/ukdmc/pix/boulby.html

updated February 5, 2017