Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.
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.
The Hubble Space Telescope has provided the most detailed survey of the Andromeda galaxy, revealing new clues about its ...
To celebrate the 100-year Edwin Hubble discovery that Andromeda was a galaxy outside our own, astronomers release the most detailed Andromeda Galaxy image ever.
The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with more than 200 million individually resolved stars.
Yet, a century ago, its discovery by Edwin Hubble, then an astronomer at Carnegie Observatories, opened humanity's eyes as to how large the universe really is, and revealed that our Milky Way ...
Edwin Hubble. That's certainly partly the truth, but he couldn't have done it without the genius of others around him who paved the way for his discovery. "It's easy to romanticize Hubble and his ...
Yet, a century ago, its discovery by Edwin Hubble opened humanity's eyes as to how large the universe really is, and revealed that our Milky Way galaxy is just one of hundreds of billions of ...
In commemoration of Edwin Hubble's discovery of a Cepheid variable class star, called V1, in the neighboring Andromeda galaxy 100 years ago, astronomers partnered with the American Association of ...