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A live broadcast from Griffith Observatory of Mars disappearing behind the moon and reappearing on the other side. Join us online (weather permitting) to watch this event. With this broadcast, we hope to provide a moment of comfort from the ongoing fires by sharing a natural event in the sky above our beautiful city.

Griffith Observatory Celebrates the 40th Anniversary of NASA’s Apollo 17 Mission

Dr. E. C. Krupp became the Acting Director of Griffith Observatory in 1974. Krupp had been hired in 1970 as a Planetarium Lecturer and been appointed Observatory Curator in 1972.

Landing on the Moon changed everything. Earth's nearest neighbor in space was transformed from a distant object shining in the night sky to a world with a desolate landscape and its own unique history.

Griffith Observatory continues its celebration of NASA’s Apollo missions to the Moon with events marking the 40th anniversary of the flight of Apollo 14 and the 50th anniversary of the flight of Ham the Chimp, the first hominid in space.

Though the construction project at the Observatory lasted for only four years from 2002-2006, the planning for the renovation and expansion project started decades earlier, with the creation of Friends Of The Observatory in 1978.

A collection of statistics, superlatives, stories about Los Angeles's favorite public building.

The renovation and expansion of Griffith Observatory offered the opportunity to rethink the building’s entire exhibit program. Even with 20,000 square feet of exhibition space in the expanded building, this meant an exhaustive exploration of astronomy was neither practical nor desirable.

On August 21, 2017, Griffith Observatory hosted thousands of people to view the partial solar eclipse.

Griffith Observatory is southern California's gateway to the cosmos! Visitors may look through telescopes, explore exhibits, see live shows in the Samuel Oschin Planetarium, and enjoy spectacular views of Los Angeles and the Hollywood Sign.