The Carnegie Observatory renewed interest in Mt. Wilson and attracted sightseers to the mountain top.

As new, larger telescopes were designed for the Carnegie Observatory, an automobile roadway became necessary to accommodate the trucks hauling parts up the mountain.

In 2003 she was named to the Crawford H. Greenewalt Chair and Director of Carnegie Observatories.

Double-star systems cycle between big and small blasts (The Carnegie Observatories)

Before joining Stanford's physics staff, he was a postdoctoral fellow in astronomy at the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, Calif., from 1991 to 1995.

He was Staff Member Emeritus with the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California.

Until his death he continued to be an active researcher at the Carnegie Observatories, still publishing several papers a year.

Dr. Wendy Freedman, director of the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, called the report "balanced and thoughtful."

"This is the most spectacular shell galaxy seen at this distance," said team member Francois Schweizer of the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California.

In 1989 he became director of the Carnegie Observatories.