NASA’s Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), launched in 2001, provided a detailed map of that leftover Big Bang radiation. Now, Vatican Observatory Adjunct Scholar Fr. Adam D. Hincks, S.J. and ...
Building giant telescopes on a remote mountain peak above Los Angeles was a feat itself, and the work of another astronomer, George Ellery Hale, who worked tirelessly to build out the observatory ...
Later, an observatory official said it appeared to be under control. By Alexandra E. Petri The Eaton fire, raging uncontained to the northeast of Los Angeles, raced up Mount Wilson on Thursday ...