Just 5 miles (8 kilometers) away from JPL in the San Gabriel Mountains lies Mount Wilson Observatory, which survived a close call with a flare-up of the Eaton fire's northern extent on Jan. 9.

The Mount Wilson Observatory was once home to the world’s largest telescope, and more than a century ago, on Jan. 1, 1925, astronomer Edwin Hubble made one of his most important discoveries at ...

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 ...

ABC7's over-the-air signal was having issues Friday morning as the Eaton Fire burned near the Mount Wilson Observatory. Man who went missing near Mt. Wilson was not avid hiker, brother says Crews ...

But in 1984 light pollution from nearby Los Angeles caught up with Mt. Wilson Observatory and its famous 100-inch Hooker telescope, causing its owners, the Carnegie Institution in Washington, D.C., to ...

https://doi.org/10.1086/317701 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/317701 ABSTRACT The astronomical seeing has been recorded at the Mount Wilson Observatory for ...