One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, Edwin Hubble settled astronomy's 'Great Debate'
A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...
200 Million-Star Tapestry: Hubble’s Astonishing New Portrait of Andromeda
The Hubble Space Telescope has provided the most detailed survey of the Andromeda galaxy, revealing new clues about its ...
Stunning photo mosaic of neighbouring Andromeda Galaxy captures the glow of 200 million stars
To celebrate the 100-year Edwin Hubble discovery that Andromeda was a galaxy outside our own, astronomers release the most ...
The Star That Proved the Universe Is Bigger Than We Imagined
Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...
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Space pictures! See our space image of the day
Andromeda. The result is a stunning panoramic view that provides the most detailed image yet of the entire galaxy. Astronomers took on the painstaking task of stitching together Hubble Space ...
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7 breathtaking images of Milky Way captured by NASA
Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is typical: it has hundreds of billions of stars, enough gas and dust to make billions more stars, and at least ten times as much dark matter as all the stars and gas put ...
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Hubble's Famous M31 VAR! plate
On the night of October 5-6, 1923, Carnegie astronomer Edwin P. Hubble took a plate of the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31) with the Hooker 100-inch telescope of the Mount Wilson Observatory. This plate, ...