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The SAO was founded in 1890 by Smithsonian Secretary Samuel Pierpont Langley . It moved from Washington, D.C. , to Cambridge in 1955 .

The Chandra X-ray Observatory is managed and operated by SAO from Cambridge. With the University Of Arizona , SAO also manages the MMT Observatory.


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