Another fire threatened the Mt. Wilson facilities in 2017, and then the Bobcat fire in 2020 burned nearly 116,000 acres nearby. Meanwhile, the Mt. Wilson Observatory provided this update on its ...

Mt. Wilson has been threatened by numerous fires in recent years, such as the Bobcat fire in 2020. The Observatory, where Edwin Hubble spent his career and was visited by Albert Einstein ...

who worked tirelessly to build out the observatory on Mount Wilson. Now, that history appears under threat — for the second time, after the destructive Bobcat Fire came close to the ...

When the Eaton Fire flared up Jan. 9, flames producing heavy dark smoke climbed to the summit of Mount Wilson, a peak high above the San ... "It's very satisfying because I did my job right," Doty ...