Serving nine UC campuses and two national laboratories, Lick Observatory continues to be at the forefront of groundbreaking ...

When I was in grade school I was fascinated by the world’s largest telescope: the 200-inch-diameter Hale Reflector on Palomar Mountain near San Diego.

Initially mistaken for a star swallowing a planet, the James Webb Space Telescope revealed a dramatic collision. A planet, spiraling inward, crashed directly into a regular star, not a red giant.

Astronomers first detected it as a brilliant optical flash from the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) at Caltech’s Palomar Observatory in San Diego, California. In 2023, scientists used NASA’s ...

was recorded by the Zwicky Transient Facility at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego, California. Subsequent investigation using data from NASA's Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey ...

The brightening event, formally called ZTF SLRN-2020, was originally spotted as a flash of optical light using the Zwicky Transient Facility at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego, California. Data ...

MOUNT WILSON, Calif. (KABC) -- The Mount Wilson Observatory is reopening to the public more than four months after the devastating Eaton Fire nearly burned down the Southern California landmark.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been studying the scene of a dramatic collision between a star and its planet, but whereas astronomers had originally thought that the star was a red giant ...

telescope on top of Mount Palomar. But when astronomers from Caltech’s radio observatory reported that their 90-ft. dish antennas were picking up powerful radio waves from 3C-147’s faint gleam ...

In 2020, the Zwicky Transient Facility at Palomar Observatory in California spotted a distant star — that sits about 12,000 light-years away from us — suddenly brighten in the night sky.

THE MOUNT WASHINGTON OBSERVATORY SAYS RECENT FREEZING RAIN AND GLAZE ICE CONDITIONS. LOOK AT THIS. MADE YESTERDAY A PERFECT DAY TO GO SKATING AT THE SUMMIT. REALLY LOOKS BEAUTIFUL. THE OBSERVATORY ...

Palomar Mountain is famous for the Palomar Observatory, which houses one of the world’s largest telescopes. While the observatory itself closes at night, the surrounding areas offer incredible ...