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A New Space Telescope Will Unravel a Great Cosmic Mystery
It was under her decades of leadership that observations made by the telescope helped build on Edwin Hubble’s work ... “That ...
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Fastest exoplanet ever is dragged through space at 1.2 million mph by hypervelocity star
The team then looked at the star's position in 2011 and compared it to its location in 2021 ... 100 years ago, a young Edwin Hubble settled astronomy’s ‘Great Debate.’ ...
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Inside the Rise of 7,000 Starlink Satellites – and Their Inevitable Downfall
Elon Musk's internet satellites have been a game changer for people in rural areas, but scientists are alarmed that plans to ...
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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One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies?
Edwin Hubble was young and ambitious. At the of age 30, he arrived at Mount Wilson Observatory in Southern California just in time to use the new Hooker 100-inch telescope, at the time the largest ...
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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 CONVERSATION) A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in January 1925, a paper ...