...POSSIBILITIES OF LARGE TELESCOPES BY GEORGE ELLERY HALE Honorary Director of the Mount Wilson Observatory EUE buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have...means the sphere of exploration has rapidly widened. If the cost of gathering celestial treasure exceeds that of searching for the buried chests of a Morgan...

...George Ellery Hale expressed it, in his stirring call for a 200-inch optical telescope (Hale, 1928): "Like buried treasures, the outposts of the Universe...brought back permanent additions to our knowledge of the heavens. The latest explorers have worked beyond the boundaries of the Milky Way in the realm of spiral...