On Dec. 20, 1904, the Mount Wilson Observatory was founded. Discover more space history 👉 https://trib.al/mjnJTnY This astronomical observatory was the brainchild of the solar astronomer George Ellery Hale. He was a professor at the University of Chicago who was famous for discovering magnetic fields in sunspots. In 1889, two Harvard astronomers started testing out the observing conditions at Mount Wilson, but rain and snow damaged many of their instruments — not to mention the clouds that bloc