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

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 ...

The blue light comes from electrons whirling at nearly the speed of light around magnetic field lines from the neutron star, which is the crushed, ultra-dense core of the exploded star.

The image shows the Arches star cluster, 25,000 light-years away, captured through infrared observations from Hubble and ground-based telescopes. This Hubble image shows NGC 6397, a star cluster 8,200 ...

Edwin “Ed” Hein, Jr., 60, of Philadelphia, passed away on Feb 3, 2025. He was the beloved father of Anabel and Lola. Services: A viewing will be held from 1 to 3 p.m. on Saturday, February 8th ...

In these gorgeous photos from the Paranal Observatory, it's not hard to see why. Photographer Yuri Beletsky caught comet G3 (ATLAS) looking " almost like a watercolor painting," ESO wrote in a ...

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 ...

About a century ago, astronomer Edwin ... two Hubble programs. In total it required over 1,000 Hubble orbits, spanning more than a decade. This panorama started about a decade ago with the ...

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 ...

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 ...