A team of physicists have proposed a new cosmological model – dubbed the "black hole universe" – that suggests that our ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the American ...

Enter Edwin Hubble. This collage highlights the Cepheid ... how significant Hubble’s discovery of external galaxies was to astronomy. He instantaneously changed our view of the universe.

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 read by one of his ...

Dr Edwin Powell Hubble, who lends his name to the iconic ... science career during one of the most exciting eras of astronomy. “It was 1919, just a few years after Albert Einstein published ...

This “period-luminosity” relation for Cepheids was discovered by pioneering astronomer Henrietta Leavitt ... painstakingly used by Edwin Hubble, to resolve the question. Mount Wilson looms ...

On Oct. 4, 1923, Edwin Hubble took a photographic plate of the Andromeda Nebula (as it was known then) using the 100-inch Hooker telescope at Mount Wilson. The next night, he took another plate ...

Circa 1945: Astronomer Dr. Edwin Powell Hubble sitting in a chair at a desk reading a journal. A staff member at Mt. Wilson Observatory, he was the first scientist to offer observational evidence ...

A research team from the USA is convinced that new data from two space telescopes resolve the stubborn discrepancy in ...

Edwin Hubble, a renowned astronomer, revolutionized our understanding of the universe. He proved the existence of galaxies beyond the Milky Way and discovered that the universe is expanding.

But that wasn't always a known concept. Jeremy Siegel: Today is the 100th anniversary of when the U.S. astronomer Edwin Hubble, who the Hubble Space Telescope is named after, took a photo of the first ...

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