One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, a young Edwin Hubble settled astronomy’s ‘Great Debate.’
In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...
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'Herculean' 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows our closest galactic neighbor like never before — and took more than a decade to create
The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with more than 200 million individually resolved stars.
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Check Out the Hubble Space Telescope’s Stunning New View of the Andromeda Galaxy
Still, observation of Andromeda has come a long way. Roughly 100 years ago, our neighboring spiral galaxy was discovered by American astronomer Edwin Hubble. Previously, scientists thought the ...
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'Enticing empire of stars:' See Andromeda galaxy in newly released NASA images
About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent ... produced the most comprehensive survey of the Andromeda galaxy, or Messier 31. The Andromeda galaxy is approximately ...
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Stunning photo mosaic of neighbouring Andromeda Galaxy captures the glow of 200 million stars
Astronomers have released the most detailed image of the Andromeda galaxy with new clues about its evolutionary history to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Edwin Hubble's discovery that our ...
Exploring Andromeda’s past through Nasa’s Hubble Space telescope
Since Hubble’s launch, astronomers have discovered over 1 trillion galaxies, but Andromeda stands out as the closest and most ...
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One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, Edwin Hubble settled astronomy's 'Great Debate'
The Andromeda galaxy, then known as the Andromeda nebula ... much smaller than the space between them. Edwin Hubble was young and ambitious. At the of age 30, he arrived at Mount Wilson ...
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One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, a young Edwin Hubble settled astronomy’s ‘Great Debate’
The Andromeda ... is a galaxy a staggering 34 billion light years away, seen just 200 million years after the big bang, when the universe was 20 times smaller than it is now. Edwin Hubble would ...