10 mind-blowing images of Interacting Galaxies taken by NASA
In January of 2025, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope released this panoramic view of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy. Assembled from a total of 7,398 exposures taken over 411 individual pointings of the ...
200 Million-Star Tapestry: Hubble’s Astonishing New Portrait of Andromeda
The Hubble Space Telescope has provided the most detailed survey of the Andromeda galaxy, revealing new clues about its ...
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Hubble's Famous M31 VAR! plate
Hubble took a plate of the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31 ... by Hubble"), is famous for having led to his discovery of the first Cepheid variable star in M31, which established beyond any doubt that ...
One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, Edwin Hubble settled astronomy's 'Great Debate'
A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...
The Star That Proved the Universe Is Bigger Than We Imagined
Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...
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Braintree star gazing event for celestial 'planet parade'
Astronomers everywhere will soon be peering through their telescopes for a celestial ‘planet parade’ that occurs just once every few decades.
7 breathtaking images of Galaxy shared by NASA
NGC 2775, also known as Caldwell 48, is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Cancer. It is 67 million light-years away from the Milky Way. NGC 3521 is located almost 40 million light-years away in the ...