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 ...

NASA has composed a beautiful melody to represent the cosmic collision of two galaxies. The lenticular galaxy NGC 274 and barred spiral galaxy NGC 275, collectively known as Arp 140, are in the ...

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 ...

BALTIMORE (AP) -- The deepest-ever view of the universe, a photo by the Hubble Space Telescope that looks back to the edge of the big bang, shows a chaotic scramble of odd galaxies smashing into each ...

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The Hubble Space Telescope, a cornerstone of modern astronomy, has been providing breathtaking images and invaluable data for over three decades. As a collaboration between NASA and the European Space ...

For humans, the most important star in the universe is our sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the Andromeda galaxy. Don't go looking for it—the flickering star is 2.2 million ...

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 ...

Jubilant astronomers today unveiled humankind’s most spectacular views of the universe, as captured by the NASA Hubble Space Telescope’s new Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). They also reported that ...

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 ...