In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

Credit: NASA, ESA, Imad Pasha (Yale), Pieter van Dokkum (Yale) NASA's Hubble Space Telescope managed to capture an incredible image of a galaxy that looks an awful lot like a bullseye. "This was a ...

Astronomer Edwin Hubble confirmed that the universe was expanding ... at upwards of hundreds of thousands of miles per second – an observation now known as Hubble’s Law, or the Hubble-Lemaître law.

The European Space Agency (ESA) shared a mesmerising video on Thursday. The footage, captured by the Hubble telescope, highlights the Tarantula Nebula. This fascinating region lies in the Large ...

Astronomers have released the most detailed image of the Andromeda galaxy with new clues about its evolutionary history to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Edwin Hubble's discovery that our ...

We can get a peek into that neighboring dwarf galaxy - which is only about 15% the size of our Milky Way - because of the Hubble Space Telescope. That galaxy is about 160,000 light years away.

Edwin Hubble was young and ambitious ... you can calculate its distance from how bright it appears using the inverse square law. The more distant the star is, the fainter it appears.

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of the outskirts of the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy about 160,000 light-years ...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a striking photo of a little-known galaxy called WISEA J070815.11+210422.3. WISEA J070815.11+210422.3 is located approximately 600 million light-years ...