In commemoration of Edwin Hubble's discovery of a Cepheid variable class star, called V1, in the neighboring Andromeda galaxy 100 years ago, astronomers partnered with the American Association of ...

M31-V1 Edwin Hubble had gathered the first proof that galaxies are distant, huge clouds of stars and gas and dust. Throughout the coming months, he discovered more Cepheids in M31 and its nearby ...

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 ...

Edwin Hubble. That's certainly partly the truth, but he couldn't have done it without the genius of others around him who paved the way for his discovery. "It's easy to romanticize Hubble and his ...

NGC 520 is a bright and highly distorted galaxy in the constellation Pisces, discovered by William Herschel in 1784.

Edwin Hubble was young and ambitious ... or apparent size is not a good guide to its distance. Hubble leveraged a discovery made by Henrietta Swan Leavitt 10 years earlier. She worked at the ...

Hubble Space Telescope however, was named for the American astronomer Edwin Hubble ... The Hubble Space Telescope is one of the greatest discovery machines of all time, pushing the limits of ...

And Hubble's discoveries have spawned more than 21,000 ... and upgraded while it remained in orbit. It was named after Edwin Hubble, the astronomer who showed that other galaxies existed beyond ...

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 ...