Birr Leviathan

Leinster · Ireland

Birr Leviathan, Ireland
Photo: Working Men's Educational Union, Public domain via Wikimedia Commons

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The colossal 72-inch reflecting telescope built in the 1840s in the grounds of Birr Castle, once the largest in the world. Its towering masonry walls and restored tube reveal how the spiral structure of galaxies was first mapped.

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