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Archive Home > 2009 > November > 15 > Keeping a close eye on a ‘priceless’ symbol of scientific exploration

Keeping a close eye on a ‘priceless’ symbol of scientific exploration

The Mount Wilson Observatory is where Edwin Hubble discovered that the Milky Way isn’t the only galaxy in the universe; this summer, it was threatened by the biggest wildfire in Los Angeles County history

By Baxter Holmes / The Bulletin
November 15, 2009

LOS ANGELES — Each morning for 19 days, Dave Jurasevich awoke on Mount Wilson to Southern California sunrises darkened by smoke and ash billowing from the sky.

Each night, the superintendent of the Mount Wilson Observatory slept at the site he hoped to protect. He worried too much to sleep,....

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