Born June 29, 1868, in Chicago, George Ellery Hale revolutionized American astronomy by, among other things, championing the ...

We were driving up and down Fair Oak’s Avenue, looking for an old theater in Pasadena that was no longer in operation as a ...

The Lowell Discovery Telescope (LDT), a 4.3-meter optical telescope operated by Lowell Observatory, is pictured on a clear winter day near Happy Jack, Arizona.

Highlighting 10 major astronomical milestones of the past century in celebration of the Royal Greenwich Observatory’s 350th ...

It wasn’t surpassed in aperture until the construction of the 100-inch Hooker Telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory in 1917. Largest eye on the sky ...

He serves as a board member of The Mount Wilson Observatory and The Sierra Madre Mountain Conservancy. Mr. Hood holds a Bachelor of Science from The Stern School of Business at New York University.

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The nearby Wilson Observatory Dome also has basements. “And we showed we could protect the mountain,” he said. Fire didn’t jump over to the other side of Mount Wilson Road, which he said was a tribute ...

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An artist's concept of NASA's Orion spacecraft orbiting the Moon while using laser communications technology through the ...

This article was originally published with the title “The Great Tower Telescope of the Mt. Wilson Solar Observatory” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 106 No. 23 (June 1912), p. 513 doi:10. ...