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Mount Wilson telescope turns 100
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-- Photo Gallery: 100th Anniversary
Telescopes
MOUNT WILSON - Five-thousand feet above Pasadena, a small group
of USC researchers and graduate students celebrated a milestone last
week: the 100th anniversary of Mount Wilson's solar telescope.
That wasn't all they were celebrating, however.
In June 1908, just months after the telescope's completion,
George Ellery Hale, the astr...
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Observatory becomes the center of the universe for research team
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Eyes on the Sky
Natural History
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Between the Stars.
Weatherwise
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