On this day in 1904 - December 20th - The Mount Wilson Solar Observatory was founded.
About fifteen years later, "solar" was dropped from the name as the 100-inch Hooker telescope came into use. Observing with it, Edwin Hubble found evidence that the Milky Way was just one galaxy in an expanding Universe.
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