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 and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...
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100 years ago, Edwin Hubble proved our Milky Way galaxy isn't alone
Hubble enters the fray Edwin Hubble joined the Mount Wilson Observatory ... Messier 31 was not a spiral nebula. It was a spiral galaxy. Hubble wrote to Shapley, informing him of his discovery.
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Edwin Hubble
Edwin Powell Hubble is renowned for determining that there ... that therefore the nebulae was not a gaseous cloud inside our galaxy, like so many nebulae, but in fact, a galaxy of stars just ...
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One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies?
The current record holder is a galaxy a staggering 34 billion light years away, seen just 200 million years after the big bang, when the universe was 20 times smaller than it is now. Edwin Hubble ...
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NASA celebrates Edwin Hubble’s discovery of a new universe
In commemoration of Edwin Hubble's discovery of a Cepheid variable class star, called V1, in the neighboring Andromeda galaxy 100 years ago, astronomers partnered with the American Association of ...
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'This doesn't appear in computer simulations': Hubble maps chaotic history of Andromeda galaxy, and it's nothing like scientists expected
An ambitious new survey by the Hubble Space Telescope offers the first bird's-eye view of all known dwarf galaxies orbiting ...
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The Hubble constant, explained
It gets its name from UChicago alum Edwin Hubble, who was first to calculate the constant from ... For an astronomical object (e.g. a star or a galaxy) at a known distance from the Earth, the Hubble ...
Hubble provides bird's-eye view of Andromeda galaxy's ecosystem
Located 2.5 million light-years away, the majestic Andromeda galaxy appears to the naked eye as a faint, spindle-shaped object roughly the angular size of the full moon. What backyard observers don't ...
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Weird Nine-Ringed ‘Bullseye Galaxy’ Found By NASA’s Hubble
has nine rings — six more than any other known galaxy. High-resolution imagery from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope confirmed eight rings, and data from the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii ...
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NASA celebrates Edwin Hubble's discovery of a new universe
He thought these might be clues to galaxy evolution—but the answer had to wait for the Hubble Space Telescope's legendary Hubble Deep Field in 1994. The most impactful finding that Edwin Hubble ...
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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 current record holder is a galaxy a staggering 34 billion light years away, seen just 200 million years after the big bang, when the universe was 20 times smaller than it is now. Edwin Hubble ...