In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...
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.
Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.
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 ...
NASA recently released images of the Andromeda galaxy ... About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and NASA scientists ...
Edwin Hubble was young and ambitious ... These glass plates recorded images of the night sky using a light-sensitive emulsion covering their surface. The telescope’s size let it make images ...
Edwin Hubble was young and ambitious ... These glass plates recorded images of the night sky using a light-sensitive emulsion covering their surface. The telescope's size let it make images ...