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 ...
In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...
Hubble’s work pushed the field of astronomy forward, starting with his paper demonstrating that some objects exist outside ...
Henrietta Swan Leavitt, an astronomer ahead of her time, discovered the relationship between a star’s brightness and its fluctuation period. This breakthrough allowed Edwin Hubble to measure galaxy ...
That Rich was presenting the story of Edwin Hubble at the January 2025 ... 1925 in Washington, D.C., that Hubble's work was officially presented for the first time. Rich describes the discovery ...
Circa 1945: Astronomer Dr. Edwin Powell Hubble sitting in a chair ... 1925 in Washington, D.C., that Hubble's work was officially presented for the first time. Rich describes the discovery of ...
It is the International Day Of Women And Girls In Science, and what better way to celebrate than to discuss the work of Henrietta Leavitt, the scientist who discovered Cepheid variables and laid the ...
Hubble’s work opened the door to the study of the universe ... Hubble makes his mark Edwin Hubble was young and ambitious. At the of age 30, he arrived at Mount Wilson Observatory in Southern ...