Astronomer Dr. Edwin Powell Hubble (1889 - 1953) sitting in a chair at a desk reading a journal. Image: New York Times Co./Getty Images This article was originally featured on The Conversation .

Edwin Hubble is the namesake for NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, which has spent decades observing faraway galaxies. NASA via AP. NASA named its flagship space observatory after Hubble, ...

“This ambitious photography of the Andromeda galaxy sets a new benchmark for precision studies of large spiral galaxies,” Chen said. Hubble launched nearly 35 years ago, in April 1990.

That Rich was presenting the story of Edwin Hubble at the January 2025 AAS meeting was symbolic, for it was at the 33rd meeting of the AAS, a century ago on January 1, 1925 in Washington, D.C ...

Edwin Hubble used it to characterise a variety of galaxy types, such as spiral, elliptical, lenticular, barred, and irregular ones. Numerous additional galaxies are in close proximity to NGC 3430.

NASA celebrates Edwin Hubble's discovery of a new universe Date: January 15, 2025 Source: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Summary: For humans, the most important star in the universe is our Sun.

The first program, the Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury (PHAT) program about a decade ago, obtained images at near-ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared wavelengths using the Advanced Camera ...

The Hubble Telescope is named after Edwin Hubble. Hubble was born in 1889 in Marshfield, Mo. By his first birthday he moved to Wheaton, Il.

Space Week is Oct. 4-10, so here are some of NASA’s latest discoveries and why Edwin Hubble’s history-making photo, taken on this day in 1923, revolutionized astronomy. This image above is ...

The Hubble Space Telescope, named after Edwin Hubble, once stared at an apparently empty black spot in the sky. Where it looked like there was nothing, primordial galaxies came into focus from ...