Around 13.7 billion years ago, something collapsed. It fell outward into the nothingness that stretched in every direction, ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

Edwin Hubble was young and ambitious ... Lemaitre made that connection by realizing that the theory of general relativity described an expanding universe. He recognized that space expanding in between ...

Ancient ‘white dwarf’ stars explode and die in more ways than was thought, and observing these violent cosmic deaths could ...

Historically, such large radio jets have remained elusive in the distant Universe. With these observations, astronomers have ... Straight Shot: Hubble Investigates Galaxy With Nine Rings Feb. 4 ...

Henrietta Swan Leavitt, an astronomer ahead of her time, discovered the relationship between a star’s brightness and its fluctuation period. This breakthrough allowed Edwin Hubble to measure galaxy ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field instrument scientist. “We [will] detect hundreds of millions of galaxies to ...

Edwin “Ed” Hein, Jr., 60, of Philadelphia, passed away on Feb 3, 2025. He was the beloved father of Anabel and Lola. Services: A viewing will be held from 1 to 3 p.m. on Saturday, February 8th ...

The universe appears to be expanding at a staggering speed ... It is named in honor of astronomer Edwin Hubble, who discovered in 1929 that galaxies are moving away from us at a speed proportional to ...

Credit: NASA, ESA, Imad Pasha (Yale), Pieter van Dokkum (Yale) NASA's Hubble Space Telescope managed to capture ... Galactic collisions occur frequently in the universe, but the researchers highlight ...

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