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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
Introduction -- Hubble's universe -- Hubble's top science accomplishments -- The message of starlight -- Crucibles of creation -- Starry tapestry -- Blaze of glory -- Hubble's invisible universe -- ...
New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope suggest that a new feature in the universe—not a flaw in telescope measurements—may be behind the decadelong mystery of why the universe is ...
The big picture: Astronomers have observed something unusual in the data gathered by the Hubble Space Telescope: the universe seems to be expanding faster today than it was billions of years ago, ...