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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'Enticing empire of stars:' See Andromeda galaxy in newly released NASA images
About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and NASA scientists have produced the most comprehensive survey of the Andromeda ...
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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 ...
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One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, Edwin Hubble settled astronomy's 'Great Debate'
Edwin Hubble was young and ambitious ... or apparent size is not a good guide to its distance. Hubble leveraged a discovery made by Henrietta Swan Leavitt 10 years earlier. She worked at 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" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and NASA scientists have produced the most comprehensive survey of the ...
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One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, a young Edwin Hubble settled astronomy’s ‘Great Debate’
Hubble leveraged a discovery made by Henrietta Swan Leavitt ... when the universe was 20 times smaller than it is now. Edwin Hubble would be amazed to see such progress.