Interview The team behind the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) just scored the Simon Ramo Medal, given by the Institute of ...

For astronomy, you need a first surface mirror ... but it is over 94 inches across — almost as big as the mirror at the Palomar Mount Wilson observatory. There were actually two mirror blanks ...

There, all within easy driving distance of Los Angeles, the world’s greatest telescopes point skyward. Atop Mount Palomar is the 200-in. Hale telescope and a 48-in. Schmidt (no relation ...

But the summit of Palomar Mountain is one of the high points of the 20th Century. For there stands the dazzling new 200-inch telescope that will peer a billion lightyears* into space—man’s ...

The ZTF camera, installed on the 48-inch Schmidt telescope at Palomar Observatory, scans the entire northern sky daily in three optical bands, reaching a depth of 20.5 magnitude—one million ...

Caption the Palomar 48 inch telescope at the Palomar Observatory in California with an image of the Milky Way in the background. The stars represent the number of supernovae discovered in each ...

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 explores the universe around him and calls ...