OBSERVATORY

The Astronomical Observatory of La Plata was one of the first inhabitants of the Paseo del Bosque and its creation was due toa law passed in October 1882.

History tells us that the news of the passage of the planet Venus across the solar disk in 1882 prompted the provincialgovernment commissioned the house that year Gautier of Paris,a telescope and its auxiliary equipment.


La Plata Observatory is home to the School of Astronomy and Geophysics, the first research center devoted to Latin America,created in 1935.

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