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 ...

She was commissioned to write poems that now hang in libraries from the new Lenexa City Center Library in Kansas to the Space ...

100 years ago, Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help. If we could go back 101 years, we would encounter a time when ...

(THE CONVERSATION) A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in January 1925, a paper read by ...

As a result, the science of cosmology exploded almost overnight. Hubble's contemporary, the distinguished Harvard astronomer Harlow Shapley, upon Hubble notifying him of the discovery, was devastated.

Yet, a century ago, its discovery by Edwin Hubble opened humanity's eyes as to how large the universe really is, and revealed that our Milky Way galaxy is just one of hundreds of billions of ...

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 ...