At 7:30 a.m. on Christmas Day, Toby Morning drove the winding roads of Mount Hamilton toward her sister’s house to open presents. Morning, the custodian at Lick Observatory, passed the observatory’s main building and its iconic white dome, which has overlooked San Jose for nearly 150 years. She spotted something terribly wrong: A gigantic curved piece of metal dangled from the dome’s edge over the roof of the visitor’s center…
The Resilient Lick Observatory Rebounds from Latest Crisis
