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 in ...
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One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, a young Edwin Hubble settled astronomy’s ‘Great Debate’
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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From the iconic 'one small step', to the spectacular 'Earthrise', check out these 10 stunning Moon photos shared by NASA.
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Stunning photo mosaic of neighbouring Andromeda Galaxy captures the glow of 200 million stars
Edwin Hubble seated at the 2.5-metre reflecting telescope at the Mount Wilson Observatory in California. (Edwin P. Hubble Papers/Huntington Library) He identified a star called V1, a Cepheid ...
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A New Space Telescope Will Unravel a Great Cosmic Mystery
For her pains, she was affectionately nicknamed “the mother of Hubble.” It was under her decades of leadership that ...
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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 ...