The wavelength range of this image stretches from ultraviolet to near-infrared light, capturing all the features of galaxy assembly over time. The faintest and farthest galaxies in the image are just ...

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On the night of Oct. 5 to 6, 1923, Edwin Hubble discovered a new star — and revealed the utter vastness of the universe. Hubble was looking at the cosmos with the 100-inch Hooker telescope at the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope viewed as it orbits Earth. NASA's school-bus-sized telescope won't quit. "The clouds are being eroded and shaped by the seething radiation from the cluster of larger stars ...

‘Pursuit of the universe’s expansion rate began in the 1920s with measurements by astronomers Edwin P. Hubble and Georges Lemaître. In 1998, this led to the discovery of “dark energy,” a mysterious ...

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 calculate ...

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100 years ago, Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

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