As a professor in Caltech’s astronomy department for a decade, Mansi Kasliwal first came to the observatory as a graduate ...
From 1985 to 2014, Jean Mueller supported astronomers from around the world who came to Palomar to use its iconic instruments. At the same time, she learned how to operate all three of its major ...
When Mansi Manoj Kasliwal was 15, she left her hometown of Indore, for boarding school in the United States. Encouraged by a teacher to pursue science, she soon found herself working on NASA’s Spitzer ...
LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles was once the best place in the world to see the universe. The most important things we know about the cosmos were discovered in the early 20th century at Mt. Wilson ...
For the past three years, astronomers at the California Institute of Technology’s Palomar Observatory in Southern California have been using the High Performance Wireless Research and Education ...
Cal Tech was taking no chances with the world’s most precious piece of glass. As it dared the perils of Southern California highways last week, the 200-inch mirror for the giant Mt. Palomar telescope, ...
San Diegans can experience the spectacular supermoon on Monday evening at several scenic spots around the county, which will ...
9:05 a.m. Oct. 3, 2023: An earlier version of this story said Edwin Hubble used the label “N” on a photographic plate to mean nebula. It stood for nova. Los Angeles was once the best place in the ...