Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.
Hubble Space Telescope mapped Andromeda, revealing a chaotic history shaped by mergers. A 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows 200 ...
A century ago, Edwin Hubble unveiled a groundbreaking discovery that revolutionized humanity’s understanding of the cosmos.
For humans, the most important star in the universe is our sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the ...
The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...
In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...
The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...
Discover the stunning 2500-megapixel photomosaic of Andromeda, created from 600 Hubble photos, showcasing the telescope's ...
About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and ...
The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with ...
Curtis argued that the spiral nebulas were galaxies in their own right, but said that the Milky Way was only 10,000 light years across. Shapley argued the opposite. Hubble enters the fray Edwin ...
Edwin Hubble's discovery of a Cepheid variable star in the Andromeda galaxy in 1923 revealed that the universe extends far beyond the Milky Way, fundamentally altering our understanding of the cosmos.