If we could go back 101 years, we would encounter a time when scientists still thought the Milky Way was the entirety of our ...
About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and ...
It was a spiral galaxy. Hubble Space Telescope images of V1 (inset), which was the Cepheid variable star in the Andromeda spiral that allowed Edwin Hubble to measure the spiral's distance and ...
Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...
The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...
That Rich was presenting the story of Edwin Hubble at the January 2025 AAS meeting ... In particular, Leavitt would scrutinize images of the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds, and had identified ...
Hubble Space Telescope mapped Andromeda, revealing a chaotic history shaped by mergers. A 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows 200 ...
In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...
That Rich was presenting the story of Edwin Hubble at the January 2025 AAS meeting was symbolic ... In particular, Leavitt would scrutinize images of the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds, and had ...
A century ago, Edwin Hubble first established that this ... will capture the equivalent of at least 100 high-resolution Hubble images in a single exposure. These observations will complement ...
Discover the stunning 2500-megapixel photomosaic of Andromeda, created from 600 Hubble photos, showcasing the telescope's ...
"It looks like it has been through some kind of event that caused it to form a lot of stars and then just shut down” ...