On December 13, 1908, astronomers first gazed at the heavens with the 60-inch telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory in California. It was the most technologically advanced viewing instrument of ...

Mount Wilson Observatory is a Los Angeles-area facility with several telescopes open to astronomers and the public. Several notable discoveries have been made using the observatory's telescopes.

Carnegie Science's Mount Wilson Observatory is renowned for groundbreaking discoveries that reshaped our understanding of the cosmos. Yet, amidst the towering telescopes and the celebrated names of ...

On July 6, 1938, an American astronomer named Seth Barnes Nicholson discovered Jupiter's moon Lysithea. Nicholson spotted ...

RECENTLY, the Carnegie Institution of Washington has catered in a practical way for the immense growth of public interest in astronomical research by opening a special building on Mt. Wilson to be ...

Despite its august place in scientific history, Mt. Wilson was no longer the best place on Earth to do astronomy. Carnegie pulled its funding from the observatory and closed the big telescope in ...

“In 1908 it was the largest telescope in the world,” says telescope operator Tom Mason. He’s one of a devoted cadre of amateur astronomers and retired engineers who keep things going atop Mt. Wilson.

Since its founding in 1904 by astronomer and visionary George Ellery Hale, Mount Wilson Observatory has played host to some of the most important discoveries in modern astronomy. Located on Mount ...

A "Cosmic Art Night," presented by Arts@ the Observatory, will shimmer on Oct. 13.. The "observing and viewing experience at the conjunction of astronomy and art" will feature the exhibit "Of Sea ...

The Mount Wilson Observatory was once home to the world’s largest telescope, and more than a century ago, on Jan. 1, 1925, astronomer Edwin Hubble made one of his most important discoveries at ...

The Mount Wilson Observatory is an important site in the history of modern astronomy. With the famous Hooker telescope, early 20th century astronomers made key observations about the Milky Way and ...

Astronomers moved on to clearer skies, beneath which larger and more powerful telescopes would be built. And Mt. Wilson Observatory discovered what so many aging luminaries in L.A. have: Once your ...