Many of our advertisers are local businesses that have been impacted directly by the fire. Some suffered extensive damage, while others were completely destroyed, and all have had to close their doors ...

If we could go back 101 years, we would encounter a time when scientists still thought the Milky Way was the entirety of our ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

The observatory was established in 1969 as a home to both 40-inch and 100-inch reflecting telescopes ... George Ellery Hale built the word's largest telescope four times over, including two at Mount ...

With a 100-inch (2.5-meter) diameter mirror for collecting light, the Hooker telescope at Mount Wilson was the largest telescope at the time. Large telescopes are not only more sensitive to ...

The Mount Wilson Observatory and telescope were not damaged from the Eaton Fire, thanks to firefighters, said L.A. County Fire Chief Anthony Marrone.

100 years of Mount Wilson’s 100-inch telescope, the first to discover the universe Happy 100th birthday to the 100-inch telescope, best known for being the first to see beyond our Milky Way galaxy.

Mount Wilson was the site of Hubble’s astronomical triumphs. In 1924 he had used the telescope’s then colossal 100-inch mirror to confirm that our galaxy is just one of countless “island ...

In 1904 George Ellery Hale, seeking clearer skies than existed near his native Chicago, obtained support from the newly formed Carnegie Institution of Washington to found the Mount Wilson Solar ...

https://doi.org/10.1086/317701 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/317701 ABSTRACT The astronomical seeing has been recorded at the Mount Wilson Observatory for ...