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| Hale 200 Inch Telescope |
Today on Far Future Horizons we present an exciting episode
from the fourth season of the acclaimed documentary series Modern Marvels that
looks at the history of Astronomical Observatories, the building of the 200 inch telescope, the establishment of the Palomar Observatory and the work of George Ellery Hale.
Humankind has always been a race of stargazers. Even
before the invention of the wheel, primitive cultures built great stone
monuments to record the movements of the heavens. But in the last century, a
handful of pioneers have learned more about the wonders of the universe than
all the dreamers before them could have ever imagined.
