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 ...
Hubble’s work pushed the field of astronomy forward, starting with his paper demonstrating that some objects exist outside ...
Wilson Observatory, he was the first scientist ... Hubble Space Telescope images of V1 (inset), which was the Cepheid variable star in the Andromeda spiral that allowed Edwin Hubble to measure ...
In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...
According to historical records, we have one man to thank for this: Edwin Hubble ... D.C., that Hubble's work was officially presented for the first time. Rich describes the discovery of the ...
NASA released six stunning images from the Hubble Telescope showcasing interacting galaxies, including the chaotic beauty of ...
The first image showcases two spiral galaxies ... a distance of some 200 million light-years away from Earth. This Hubble Space Telescope captures a glimpse into a group of galaxies that may ...
In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have ... A century ago, Edwin Hubble first established that this so-called 'spiral nebula' was actually very far ...
“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...
A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble ... telescope, at the time the largest in the world. He began taking photographic plates of the spiral nebulae. These glass plates recorded images ...
Over more than ten years, the Hubble Space Telescope has taken individual images of the Andromeda Galaxy ... also reminding us that 100 years ago, Edwin Hubble, who gave his name to the space ...