Circa 1945: Astronomer Dr. Edwin Powell Hubble sitting ... Wilson,” said Rich. “Hubble was able to make his discovery because he had access to this state-of-the-art technology.” ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is named after Edwin Powell Hubble (1889-1953), a pioneer of modern astronomy who first established that the so-called “spiral nebula” was actually far outside our ...

Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

A century ago, Edwin Hubble first established that this so-called 'spiral nebula' was actually very far outside our own Milky Way galaxy -- at a distance of approximately 2.5 million light-years ...

Determining the expansion rate of the universe—known as the Hubble constant—has been a major scientific pursuit ever since 1929, when Edwin Hubble first discovered that the universe was expanding.