From the AIP History Weekly Newsletter:
Article spotlight: Eun-Joo Ahn on the road to Mount Wilson Observatory
by Rebecca Charbonneau, American Institute of Physics
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This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew.
Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right.
Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
In today's AIP History Weekly Edition, @rebeccacharbon.bsky.social looks at Eun-Joo Ahn's recent @hsnatsci.bsky.social article on how perilous road construction in the San Gabriel Mtns, undertaken by immigrant Japanese laborers, made Mount Wilson Observatory possible.
📷 from Huntington Library.
It's not yet clear to me how they pulled it off, but apparently my library (Niels Bohr Library and Archive) has managed to purchase a physical copy that should be arriving soon!
Good to know! I think we are about to get some crazy snow here in the DMV this weekend. Going to spend it locked in and finding some aliens 🫡