The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with more than 200 million individually resolved stars.
It is clear that human beings, throughout history, have always had a constant curiosity to discover everything that happens ...
In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...
Our modern era of space observation and exploration deepens our connection with the universe—and with each other. When NASA ...
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 ...
The intrepid mapping mission has collected more than three trillion observations that'll change the way we see our neck of the cosmic woods.
A century ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble first established that this so-called "spiral nebula" was approximately 2.5 million light years away from our own Milky Way galaxy. Now, the space telescope ...
Somewhere in between, humans realized the universe is much larger than our Milky Way — that the spiral nebulas visible through telescopes were, in fact, other galaxies in their own right.
About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and NASA scientists have produced the most comprehensive survey of the Andromeda ...
Imad Pasha, the lead researcher and a doctoral student at Yale University called it a "serendipitous discovery" because it ...
About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula ... 2.5 million light-years away from the Milky Way. The observations recorded by Hubble yield new ...