The key NASA center remains under a mandatory evacuation order, but officials say both it and Mount Wilson are protected for ...
The blaze threatened the observatory and communications infrastructure at the peak. Later, an observatory official said it ...
They gave up on building the telescope, but they had already ordered the glass for the lens, so they gave it to Hale. He finished building it in Wisconsin, because he thought Mount Wilson was ...
Using variable stars as distance markers and the giant telescope on Mount Wilson, Edwin Hubble (then a young and little-known astronomer) was able to show that the Andromeda Nebula was over a ...
According to a CalFire incident update, “Numerous firefighting air tankers from throughout the state are flying fire ...
Home to the largest telescope of its day, Mount Wilson was the site of Hubble's astronomical triumphs. In 1924 he had used the telescope's then colossal 100-inch (254-centimeter) mirror to ...
Hubble made no claims about a creator, but his discoveries and the wonder they evoke have prompted others to reconsider ‘the ...
Photo: Andromeda nebula plate with Hubble's handwritten circle around the variable star he discovered In 1919 American astronomer Edwin Hubble began work at the Mount Wilson Observatory in ...
Home to the largest telescope of its day, 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 ...
According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, five people have died in the blaze that has moved through Pasadena, ...