100 years of Mount Wilson’s 100-inch telescope, the first to discover the universe
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100 years of Mount Wilson’s 100-inch telescope, the first to discover the universe
Happy 100th birthday to the 100-inch telescope, best known for being the first to see beyond our Milky Way galaxy. That’s right, it spotted the universe!
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On Dec. 20, 1904, the Mount Wilson Observatory was founded. Discover more space history 👉 https://trib.al/mjnJTnY This astronomical observatory was the brainchild of the solar astronomer George Ellery Hale. He was a professor at the University of Chicago who was famous for discovering magnetic fields in sunspots. In 1889, two Harvard astronomers started testing out the observing conditions at Mount Wilson, but rain and snow damaged many of their instruments — not to mention the clouds that bloc
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