Mysterious Icy Objects Found in Milky Way Baffle Astronomers: Everything You Need to Know
Conflicting distance measurements have added to the uncertainty. One data source places one object at 6,500 light years away, ...
200 Million-Star Tapestry: Hubble’s Astonishing New Portrait of Andromeda
The Hubble Space Telescope has provided the most detailed survey of the Andromeda galaxy, revealing new clues about its ...
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Hubble's Famous M31 VAR! plate
On the night of October 5-6, 1923, Carnegie astronomer Edwin P. Hubble took a plate of the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31) with the Hooker 100-inch telescope of the Mount Wilson Observatory. This plate, ...
Hubble studies the Tarantula Nebula's outskirts
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a dusty yet sparkling scene from one of the Milky Way's satellite ...
One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, Edwin Hubble settled astronomy's 'Great Debate'
A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...
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NASA’s Hubble shows off sparkling Tarantula Nebula, where the biggest stars are born
NASA’s recent Image of the Day was the outer regions of the Tarantula Nebula, which is billed as one of the biggest and ...
The Star That Proved the Universe Is Bigger Than We Imagined
Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...
Hubble snaps another gorgeous image of the Tarantula Nebula
A new image from Hubble shows a beautiful patch of the famous Tarantula Nebula.The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your Inbox ...
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The Andromeda galaxy is finally viewed in all its glory, thanks to the help of UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz astronomers
The Hubble Space Telescope completes a high-resolution portrait of our galaxy's gorgeous neighbor, which will help scientists better understand our Milky Way.
NASA Hubble Space Telescope reveals most detailed image of Andromeda galaxy to date
Astronomers have released the most comprehensive photograph of the Andromeda galaxy, which contains over 200 million stars.
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Hubble Space Telescope reveals richest view of Andromeda galaxy to date (image)
Around 2015, astronomers took on the painstaking task of stitching together Hubble Space Telescope images of this galaxy, but that effort had focused on the galaxy's northern half. Still, however, the ...