Yet, a century ago, its discovery by Edwin Hubble, then an astronomer at Carnegie ... one evening at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington. He maintained that the Milky Way ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the American ...

Edwin Powell Hubble is renowned for determining that there are other galaxies in the Universe beyond the Milky Way, and for observing that the universe is expanding at a constant rate. Hubble was ...

The two scientists faced off in the Great Debate, also called the Shapley-Curtis Debate, that was held at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History ... astronomer Edwin Hubble was the one who ...

The Hubble constant is one of the most important numbers in cosmology because it tells us how fast the universe is expanding, which can be used to determine the age of the universe and its history. It ...

An ambitious new survey by the Hubble Space Telescope offers the first bird's-eye view of all known dwarf galaxies orbiting ...

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 one of his ...