On the night of October 5-6, 1923, Carnegie astronomer Edwin P. Hubble took a plate of the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31) with the Hooker 100-inch telescope of the Mount Wilson Observatory. This plate, ...

To celebrate the 100-year Edwin Hubble discovery that Andromeda was a galaxy outside our own, astronomers release the most ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

A valuable collection of vintage scientific equipment, including telescopes ... with astronomers from the esteemed Mt. Wilson solar observatory in California, was completed in 1936.

Hubble Space Telescope mapped Andromeda, revealing a chaotic history shaped by mergers. A 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows 200 ...

When the Eaton Fire flared up Jan. 9, flames climbed to the summit of Mount Wilson northeast of LA. What happened next was a ...

Shapley argued the opposite. Hubble enters the fray Edwin Hubble joined the Mount Wilson Observatory team in California in ...

The Eaton Fire made a run for Mount Wilson on Thursday afternoon. But the Mount Wilson Observatory and the telescope were not damaged, thanks to firefighters' efforts, said L.A. County Fire Chief ...

After returning from injury and taking the reins of the starting job in Week 7, Russell Wilson provided a massive upgrade for the Pittsburgh Steelers and it looked like he was almost a lock to ...

Wilson, a 5,710-foot peak in the San Gabriel Mountains – and the Mount Wilson Observatory, an astronomical observatory that houses some very important telescopes and was conceived and founded in 1904 ...

The Eaton Fire that started in the foothills northeast of Los Angeles flared up Thursday morning and climbed to the summit of Mount Wilson. The peak high above the San Gabriel Valley is home to ...