It can be seen with the naked eye on a very clear autumn night as a faint cigar-shaped object roughly the apparent angular diameter of our Moon. A century ago, Edwin Hubble first established that ...

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 ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has provided the most detailed survey of the Andromeda galaxy, revealing new clues about its ...

Its angular size—six times larger than the Moon in the sky—and vast stellar population of over 1 trillion stars make it a monumental subject for study. Hubble’s mosaic of Andromeda ...

The eight ripples seen by the Hubble Space Telescope in this cosmic scene marks the most ever seen in any galaxy, and data ...

The water ripples out from where the bird breaks the surface. The Hubble Space Telescope is helping scientists unravel the history of the two galaxies and the results of their cosmic meetup.

It can be seen with the naked eye on clear autumn nights as a faint oval object roughly the size of the moon. A century ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble first established that this so-called "spiral ...

a website with Hubble imagery and press releases, to be shut down and content moved to a NASA website in March. There will also be a reduction in grant funding to $15.9 million and “compressed ...

Twenty years ago, the Huygens probe achieved humanity's first landing on a moon in the outer solar system when it touched down on Titan. In this special Hubble image 23 years in the making ...

Hubble captured an exploding star about 650 million light-years from Earth. The Hubble Space Telescope recently captured a snapshot of a rare supernova that sits in the Gemini constellation, about ...

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