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100 years ago: Edwin Hubble proved the Milky Way is not the only galaxy in the universe
In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...
200 Million-Star Tapestry: Hubble’s Astonishing New Portrait of Andromeda
The Hubble Space Telescope has provided the most detailed survey of the Andromeda galaxy, revealing new clues about its ...
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Massive 2500 megapixel photomosaic of Andromeda assembled from 600 Hubble photographs
It was a century ago that Edwin Hubble himself established the fact that the faint cigar-shaped object roughly the apparent angular diameter of our Moon, Andromeda (or Messier 31 to give it its proper ...
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100 years ago, Edwin Hubble proved our Milky Way galaxy isn't alone
Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.
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Hubble telescope reveals new information about the galaxy next door
With images from the Hubble Space Telescope, we have new information here in the Milky Way about our closest neighboring galaxy, Andromeda. Researchers unveiled the most comprehensive survey of the ...
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NASA celebrates Edwin Hubble's discovery of a new universe
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 ...
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One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, a young Edwin Hubble settled astronomy’s ‘Great Debate’
(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 ...