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 ...
It took a decade for NASA to piece together this 416,592,960 pixel image of the Andromeda galaxy and the key takeaway? 'Andromeda's a train wreck'
"It looks like it has been through some kind of event that caused it to form a lot of stars and then just shut down” ...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope creates largest photomosaic ever made of "train wreck" Andromeda galaxy with over 2.5 billion pixels
The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and can be seen with the naked eye on a clear autumn night as “a faint ...
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Hubble Tension Controversy “Now Turns into a Crisis” as New Discovery Challenges Current Models
Controversial new findings have reignited the longstanding cosmological quarrel involving what astronomers call the "Hubble ...
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What Is a Nebula?
What better way to end than with some examples of said beauty and utility? After all that reading, we'll leave you with a few glamour shots of our favorite nebula: Messier 16, better known as the ...
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The universe is expanding too fast to fit theories: Hubble tension in crisis
The Universe really seems to be expanding fast. Too fast, even. A new measurement confirms what previous -- and highly debated -- results had shown: The Universe is expanding faster than predicted by ...
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Andromeda galaxy: The violent history of our closest cosmic neighbor
Hubble Space Telescope mapped Andromeda, revealing a chaotic history shaped by mergers. A 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows 200 ...
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NASA's Hubble traces hidden history of Andromeda galaxy
In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...
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Our Universe is expanding faster than science can explain, sending physics into "crisis" mode
New measurements show that the expansion rate of the universe is faster than can be explained by our current understanding of ...
100 years ago, Edwin Hubble proved our Milky Way galaxy isn't alone
That Rich was presenting the story of Edwin Hubble at the January 2025 AAS meeting was symbolic, for it was at the 33rd ...
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NASA Celebrates Edwin Hubble’s Discovery of a New Universe
For humans, the most important star in the universe is our Sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the ...