The Andromeda galaxy helped Edwin Hubble settle a great debate in astronomy. Stocktrek Images via Getty Images A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known ...

A century ago, a star in Andromeda named V1 launched a revolution in astronomy, revealing its true immensity and the origin ...

In commemoration of Edwin Hubble's discovery of a Cepheid variable class star, called V1, in the neighboring Andromeda galaxy 100 years ago, astronomers partnered with the American Association of ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Circa 1945: Astronomer Dr. Edwin Powell Hubble sitting in a chair at a desk reading a journal. A ...

Edwin Powell Hubble is renowned for determining that there are other galaxies in the Universe beyond the Milky Way, and for observing that the universe is expanding at a constant rate. Hubble was a ...

Last time I wrote about new data that overturns the standard cosmological model. Before anyone starts dusting off their ...

The Hubble law implies that the universe is expanding. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, launched into low Earth orbit in 1990, has been a vital instrument for exploring the universe for over three ...

The study of the expansion of the universe began in 1920 with measurements by astronomers Edwin P Hubble and Georges Lemaitre. Hubble, the first telescope to revolutionize modern astronomy and change ...

The freshly spotted galaxy offers a rare glimpse of our universe when it was young, less than 300 million years after the Big Bang. The Hubble Space Telescope recently imaged a nearly edge-on view of ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The famed Hubble Space Telescope ...