A century ago this month, a brash astronomer leaked a discovery that opened our view to the cosmic distance scale and the ...
There are lots of astronomers who are a little weird. However, Edwin Hubble was unique.
On the first page, reporter Clark Kent, Superman’s alter ego, covers the launch of a new NASA satellite while onboard a space ...
It seems like almost yesterday that a teacher told me when I was very young, that the Milky Way was the very end of our ...
Since the discovery of the acceleration, theorists have calculated that the universe will continue to expand faster and ...
But the telescope’s sensitive cameras can also ... In the 1920s, astronomers Georges Lemaître and Edwin Hubble discovered that the universe has been expanding since its birth 13.8 billion ...
When the historic observatory was shuttered by the University of Chicago, a community organization helped to revitalize it.
Even astronomers like Edwin Hubble from the 20th would be amazed ... They've even used the James Webb Space Telescope to peer back in time at the universe's earliest galaxies.
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has provided a dramatic and ... R Aquarii was studied by none other than Edwin Hubble in an effort to understand the mechanism that powers the system.
Although born in Missouri, in the U.S., Hubble affected a stilted English upper-class accent and was a master of self-promotion. In his pictures, he is always decked out in suit and tie and striking ...