The Palomar meals were a continuation of an even earlier tradition at Mount Wilson Observatory outside Pasadena. The astronomers’ dorm there, a string of plain rooms perched next to a cliff ...

Working at the Mount Palomar Observatory in California, the Shoemaker-Levy team proved extremely successful, but it was the discovery in 1993 of Shoemaker-Levy 9, in orbit around Jupiter ...

"A lot of people are eagerly waiting to spot the new jewel in the crown," said Mansi Kasliwal, the Caltech astronomy professor who is planning to use the Palomar Observatory in northeast San Diego ...

Constellations, otherwise known as groups of stars that allegedly make pictures in the sky, have been dreamed up by humankind ...

Los Angeles was once the best place in the world to see the universe. The most important things we know about the cosmos were discovered in the early 20th century at Mt. Wilson Observatory. It was ...

Wilson Observatory in California ... When the 200-inch telescope was completed on Mt. Palomar, Hubble was given the honor of first use. He died in 1953. "Equipped with his five senses, man ...

a robotic telescope on Mount Palomar, was reprogrammed to start the hunt. LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, and its European counterpart, VIRGO, have just completed ...

Amazing. Turns out the mirror isn’t as big as the Earth, but it is over 94 inches across — almost as big as the mirror at the Palomar Mount Wilson observatory. There were actually two mirror ...

One of the most violent events in the universe may be imminent. It promises to advance our understanding of turbulent binary ...

LOS ANGELES — Every clear night for the last three weeks, Bob Stephens has pointed his home telescope at the same two stars in hopes of witnessing one of the most violent events in the universe ...