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

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 ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured some stunning images of a ‘Grand Design’ spiral galaxy, revealing intricate details of its swirling arms and structure. The Southern Pinwheel ...

Astronomers have released the most detailed image of the Andromeda galaxy with new clues about its evolutionary history to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Edwin ... images of V1, the star that ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically ... taking images of spiral nebulae every clear night and looking for the telltale variations of Cepheid variables. By the end of 1924, he had ...

Edwin Hubble ... taking images of spiral nebulae every clear night and looking for the telltale variations of Cepheid variables. By the end of 1924, he had found 12 Cepheids in M31.

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of the outskirts of the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy about 160,000 light-years ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians moved north on Monday after Israeli forces withdrew from ...

Manchester United legend Edwin van der Sar has expressed his excitement ahead of watching his former two sides play against each other in the Premier League. "Today I will be at Craven Cottage to ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a dusty yet sparkling scene from one of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud. Hubble Rings In the New Year ...

“There was somebody who messaged me and just complimented one of the photos and it was weird,” she said. “I recognized his face. I was like, ‘I know him.’ So, I let it sit for a couple ...