European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 8, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Underside of mount Palomar s 200-Inch reflector. An observer sits in the a Prima focus Cage of the Gigantic Telescope. Using mount Palomar s big Eye astronomers Are witnessing events of a billion years ago they re looking backward into time the following dispatch is condensed from the Bee hive quarterly publication of the United aircraft corp it was 6 15 pm Pacific time on Palomar Mountain in Southern California.  w. Babcock was about to participate in a nightly Miracle denied to most people. He was going to peer far Back int time. He would do this vital the big Eye the 200-Inch Hale Telescope. This marvelous creation the largest Tele scope in the world can photograph Celes tial bodies in still nameless Star systems More than a billion Light years or6,000,000,000,000,000,000.000 six billion tril lion Miles away. It can get spectral Pat terns 2 billion Light years away. In its Range lie answers to some of the most Basic questions when and How was our universe born what is happening to it now what is its future the Palomar astronomers under or. Ira s. Bowen the director and Babcock the assistant director Hope within five years to come up with some of these answers. These men who work at the mount Wil by John h. Martin distributed by up son and Palomar observatories which Are operated jointly by the California Institute of technology and the Carnegie institution of Washington have set themselves an enormous task to get some idea of the observable universe of which our Earth is a Mere spinning speck in a time and space staggering to the imagination. They also Hope to learn How much matter is. Contained in the universe and whether itis expanding at a slower rate today than in the past. And they will attempt to Loo far Back in time perhaps several billion years and observe How the universe be have when it was very Young. Bowen said achieving these objectives which will Mark the culmination of More than 35 years work now appears to be possible because of the greater accuracy being developed in the yardsticks that measure the enormous distances in  astronomers do not live permanently on their mountaintops at Wilson just North of Pasadena or Palomar which is 130 Miles to the Southeast. Or. Babcock is one of a 15-Mari team which has a continued on Page 12 the largest of he three domes