On Tuesday afternoon, the Bobcat Fire is burning within 500 feet of the Mt. Wilson Observatory, threatening this iconic part of the Los Angeles landscape.
The 114-year-old site is full of equipment that helped humanity discover not only our place in the universe -- but the universe itself.
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