The 200-inch Hale telescope on Palomar Mountain is ailing ... Bowen, director of the observatory, announced this week that it might not be in working order until next fall. The telescope ...

Chinese astronomers have investigated quasar candidates from the DESI Legacy Surveys (DESI-LS) photometry catalog. As a ...

On November 8, astronomers at Caltech's Palomar Observatory in the mountains above San Diego directed a brand-new spectrograph instrument to capture data from a newfound supernova. The resulting ...

A team of astronomers has detected 19 quasars, revealing details about supermassive black holes and cosmic dynamics.

and the 200-inch telescope at Palomar Observatory, which saw first light in 1949, after his death, and was jointly operated by Carnegie and Caltech until 1980. It is from Mount Wilson’s 60-inch that ...

One of her first research experiences was studying near-earth asteroids and having the opportunity to participate in an observing run at Mount Palomar observatory. She has since been drawn to the ...