Many astronomers are growing increasingly concerned that these outdoor lighting from roads, buildings and elsewhere could ...

Mount Wilson Observatory’s 60-inch telescope, the world’s largest exclusively available to the public, and its Hooker 100-inch telescope helped establish the Solar System’s current place in ...

For more on the entire “Sunday Afternoon Concerts in the Dome” series, please visit VISITING MWO The gate to Mount Wilson’s campus opens at 10:00am daily and closes at 5:00pm from early April through ...

Mount Wilson Observatory is the name you often hear when astronomical milestones are described, such as the building of mega, majorly powerful telescopes or the discoveries of extremely distant ...

In the late 1960s, Mount Wilson Observatory also branched out with a new Southern Hemisphere station in Las Campanas, Chile. Despite bright night skies, superb seeing has kept solar astrophysics ...

Tom Meneghini, executive director of the Mount Wilson Institute, is photographed Sept. 23 next to the 100-inch Hooker telescope located at the Mount Wilson Observatory in Los Angeles.

If you're thinking about visiting Mount Wilson Observatory sometime soon, you should plan on bringing your own bottle of water. Thanks to the drought, the observatory has shut off its tap and ...

The wildfire threat to historic Mount Wilson Observatoryseems to have subsided, though firefighters are still wary of the blaze, whichhas burned more than 144,000 acres. The so-called Station fire ...

Mt. Wilson Observatory didn’t burn this time. It will one day A helicopter fights the Bobcat fire burning dangerously close to the Mt. Wilson Observatory on Sept. 16.

PASADENA, CA – AUGUST 13, 2022 – – Guests attending the Acoustic Sculptures of Michael Brewster roam around the 100-inch Telescope at the Mount Wilson Observatory Saturday, August 13, 2022 in Pasadena ...

Mount Wilson celebrates the 100th year anniversary of the telescope on Nov. 4. For the first half of the 20th century, Mount Wilson was the most famous observatory in the world.

Beneath the cavernous, rivet-studded dome of the Mt. Wilson Observatory, dozens of people gathered around the 100-inch telescope to take a peek at the craters and crags of the moon.