A decade of observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has produced the sharpest and most detailed images of the Andromeda ...

Danish astronomer Ejnar Hertzsprung realized the tremendous significance ... and calibrated Leavitt's graph with absolute magnitudes. When Edwin Hubble discovered a Cepheid within the so-called ...

The Andromeda galaxy is the galaxy next door, a very faint, fuzzy thing in the night sky, larger than a full moon. Textbooks ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in January 1925, a paper read by one of his ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Circa 1945: Astronomer Dr. Edwin Powell Hubble sitting in a chair at a desk reading a journal.

A cosmic void could be distorting how we see the universe expand. Sound from the Big Bang may hold the clues. According to ...

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 ...

Other galaxies were considerably farther into the cosmos. Astronomer Edwin Hubble at Mount Wilson around 1925. (Henry E. Huntington Library) Today, we take it for granted that the universe is immense.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Edwin Hubble, who revolutionized the way people look at the heavens, will be the next inductee into the Hall of Famous Missourians. The bronze bust of Hubble will be the ...

(THE CONVERSATION) A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in January 1925, a paper ...