In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...

According to historical records, we have one man to thank for this: 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 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 read by ...

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 ...

Circa 1945: Astronomer Dr. Edwin Powell Hubble sitting in a chair at a desk reading a journal. A staff member at Mt. Wilson Observatory, he was the first scientist to offer observational evidence ...

(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 ...

Edwin Hubble's discovery of a Cepheid variable star in the Andromeda galaxy in 1923 revealed that the universe extends far beyond the Milky Way, fundamentally altering our understanding of the cosmos.