Palomar Observatory, operated by Cal Tech Institute of Technology, atop Mount Palomar in San Diego County, California. (Terry Richard/The Oregonian) Talk about a place to gaze at the stars. The ...

The vision for the Palomar Observatory is credited to George Ellery Hale, a 19th- and 20th-century astronomer who is known not only for his scientific discoveries — he found out that magnetic ...

Born June 29, 1868, in Chicago, George Ellery Hale revolutionized American astronomy by, among other things, championing the ...