Stunning photo mosaic of neighbouring Andromeda Galaxy captures the glow of 200 million stars
To celebrate the 100-year Edwin Hubble discovery that Andromeda was a galaxy outside our own, astronomers release the most ...
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One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, a young Edwin Hubble settled astronomy’s ‘Great Debate’
Hubble’s work pushed the field of astronomy forward, starting with his paper demonstrating that some objects exist outside ...
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100 years ago, Edwin Hubble proved our Milky Way galaxy isn't alone
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 ...
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Towering task: Astronomy buffs fight to save shuttered observatory near Pontiac
funded in part by contributions from the Detroit-based McGregor and Rackham Funds and developed in close collaboration with astronomers from the esteemed Mt. Wilson solar observatory in California ...
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It happened today – this day in history – February 10
Crusaders defeat Prince Redwan of Aleppo at Antioch. 1355: The St. Scholastica’s Day riot breaks out in Oxford, leaving ...
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NASA celebrates Edwin Hubble’s discovery of a new universe
Many astronomers long believed that the edge ... the Andromeda galaxy, at the Mount Wilson Observatory high above Los Angeles. In short, Edwin Hubble is the man who wiped away the ancient universe ...