But Hubble’s major discovery is arguably (at least partially) due to the efforts of a slightly lesser-known astronomer: ...

not long after shipping the finished spectrograph As US astronomers cheer the completion of the state-of-the-art project to rejuvenate the iconic Hale Telescope, one key collaborator is locked out ...

Careful analysis of a Hubble Space Telescope image indicated that reason for Hale-Bopp's brightness was its exceptionally large size. The nuclei of most comets are about 1-2 miles across.

Carnegie grants include observatories and the Hale Telescope on Mount Wilson. Carnegie grants to Nobel Laureates Barbara McClintock, Alfred Hershey and Andrew Fire for their work on genetics ...