The Carnegie Observatories are the birthplace of modern astronomy. Near the turn of the last century, George Ellery Hale convinced Andrew Carnegie to build Observatory headquarters in Pasadena and ...

Magellan Telescopes at Carnegie's Las Campanas Observatory in Chile. An anonymous bequest of $34.8 million will enable Carnegie to continue to play a leading role advancing the frontiers of astronomy ...

Astronomer Michael R. Blanton will join the Carnegie Science Observatories as its 12th director, overseeing astronomical research in Pasadena and telescope operations at Las Campanas Observatory in ...

Docent Tim Thompson, right, gives students from USC a tour inside the 100-inch telescope at Mt. Wilson Observatory above Los Angeles. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times) For the record:9:05 a.m. Oct. 3, ...

Some of us in the San Gabriel Valley, if still too few, know how cool it is that the Carnegie Observatories are headquartered in Pasadena, tucked away on quiet Santa Barbara Street in a Myron ...

At its annual May meeting, the Carnegie Institution for Science board of trustees enthusiastically endorsed the construction of the proposed Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT). The GMT will be the first ...

Leonard Searle, an astronomer and past director of the Carnegie Observatories whose observations provided crucial information in determining the conditions of the big bang that created the universe ...

Pasadena, CA—The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation awarded the 2009 Cosmology Prize to Carnegie's Wendy Freedman; Robert Kennicutt of the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge; and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Docent Tim Thompson, right, gives students from USC a tour of the 100-inch telescope at Mt. Wilson Observatory above Los Angeles. ...

An anonymous bequest of $34.8 million will enable Carnegie to continue to play a leading role advancing the frontiers of astronomy and astrophysics. The largest gift to the Institution since it was ...

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LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles was once the best place in the world to see the universe. The most important things we know about the cosmos were discovered in the early 20th century at Mt. Wilson ...