Hale Telescope, built in 1949 on Mount Palomar in California and used by Edwin Hubble in the years before his death. A Soviet telescope called the BTA-6 beat it by one meter (39 inches ...

The Next Generation Palomar Spectrograph (NGPS) has given the 76-year-old telescope at the California Institute of Technology's Palomar Observatory an unmatched ability to capture fainter objects ...