How scientists around the world track the Solar Cycle

Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 16, 2020

Every morning, astronomer Steve Padilla takes a short walk from his home to the base of a tower that soars 150 feet above the ground. Tucked in the San Gabriel Mountains, about an hour's drive north from Los Angeles, the Mount Wilson Observatory has long been a home for space science - it's Padilla's home too, one of the perks to his work as Mount Wilson's Sun observer. Mount Wilson has several