The iconic Palomar Observatory in Southern California has welcomed astronomers to its mountaintop perch for almost 80 years. Its massive, 200-inch (5.08 meters) Hale telescope doubled the known ...

The Palomar Observatory is an astronomical research ... The telescope was put on Palomar Mountain, which is 100 miles (161 km) southeast of Pasadena. The first telescope put up there was a modest ...

NASA says NEA’s like 2020 QG skim past Earth only a few times a year. The observatory is located on Palomar Mountain, at a spot approximately 40 miles north-northeast of San Diego. It began ...

PALOMAR MOUNTAIN, Calif — 2023 marks 75 years since the Palomar Observatory was first dedicated. The San Diego County scientific marvel recently made headlines after the famous green comet was ...

A preliminary magnitude 3.5 earthquake with an epicenter near Palomar Mountain rattled parts of ... epicenter less than 2 miles from the Palomar Observatory at 6:30 a.m. Friday.

UPDATE 7 a.m. Sunday: In a Sunday morning update on the Cutca fire, the National Forest Service put the size of the fire at 167 acres, down from 200 acres. It said the brush fire, which broke out ...

A 3.6-magnitude quake struck near the Palomar Observatory at 1:18 a.m., USGS data shows. This area is part of the Palomar Mountain range. The quake occurred at a depth of about 8 miles ...

The Palomar GranFondo bike ride will go through Valley Center, Rincon, Pauma Valley, Palomar, etc., this Saturday, June 7, with the ride starting at 7:15 a.m., starting and returning to Francis Ryan ...

Palomar Mountain Road is a car killer. It contains 32 corners packed tightly into a 6-mile stretch of tarmac. The road climbs steeply to an observatory that contains what was once the world’s ...

Palomar Observatory bids farewell to a tradition ... By Dennis Overbye If you’re about to stay up all night atop a cold mountain, to squint through an eyepiece at shimmering, impossibly distant ...