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NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Dr. Jennifer Wiseman explains the Hubble Space Telescope's view of the Pillars of Creation ...
This important discovery—known as Hubble’s law—supported the Big Bang theory of an expanding universe. In 1949, Hubble launched a project at California’s Palomar Observatory to complete the first ...
A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours. His influence in astronomy continues to this day.
Magistrate Gail Hubble has actually refused to free someone she justly calls an ‘appalling’ teenage offender All hail magistrate Gail Hubble, or ‘Go To Jail Gail’, for adopting the old ...
It seemed that these redshifted galaxies were all moving away from the Milky Way. Hubble’s results suggested the farther away a galaxy was, the faster it was moving away from Earth.
Hubble’s work pushed the field of astronomy forward, starting with his paper demonstrating that some objects exist outside our galaxy.
In recent years, trouble has been brewing in attempts to measure the universe's expansion, which is governed by the Hubble–Lemaître law.
A century ago, humans didn't know other galaxies existed. Here's how Edwin Hubble changed that view.
Edwin Hubble's observations of V1 became the critical first step in uncovering a larger, grander universe than some astronomers imagined at the time.
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 ...
Edwin Hubble's observations of V1 became the critical first step in uncovering a larger, grander universe than some astronomers imagined at the time.