The two keys to Edwin Hubble's breakthrough discovery were forged by others in the 1910s. The first key, the period-luminosity scale discovered by Henrietta Leavitt, allowed astronomers to ...
On Sunday November 23, 1924, 100 years ago this month, readers perusing page six of the New York Times would have found an ...
By the dawn of the 20th century, not much had changed in the 400 years since Galileo's discovery of the four jovian moons and ...
Mapping the universe requires astronomical collaboration, said Julia Roman-Duval at a recent edition of Creative Mornings Baltimore.
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 ...
Hubble and its fellow observatories give us an unprecedented, crystal-clear look at the far reaches of the cosmos. Explore these orbiting pioneers and learn what they've discovered. 3 min read The ...
The smaller inset image is a wider perspective on the location of the three stars in relation to the ... [+] wispy nebula. This is more than a pretty picture. “Hubble studied HP Tau as part of ...
Hubble’s orbit is decaying and if it degrades badly it will unavoidably burn-up in Earth’s atmosphere. Mission over. NASA has two options. Accept that this scenario is inevitable and ...