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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 ...
Hubble reveals unusual globular clusters in ultra-diffuse galaxy FCC 224
Using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), astronomers from the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) and elsewhere have ...
Hubble Hits the ‘Bullseye,’ a Galaxy With Record-Breaking 9 Rings
The Bullseye is now confirmed to have nine rings, eight of which are visible to Hubble. Researchers confirmed the existence ...
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NASA’s Hubble captures a distant supernova in Gemini
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning image of a faraway galaxy that recently hosted a supernova. This galaxy ...
Hubble Hits A Cosmic Bullseye With Stunning Shot Of A Gargantuan 9-Ringed Galaxy
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope had captured a ringed galaxy (LEDA 1313424) that not only heavily resembles a bullseye, but ...
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One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, a young Edwin Hubble settled astronomy’s ‘Great Debate’
Hubble’s work opened the door to the study of the universe beyond our galaxy. In the century since ... by not realizing there were two different types of Cepheid variables.
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One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, a young Edwin Hubble settled astronomy’s ‘Great Debate’
Measuring a galaxy’s brightness or apparent size is not a good guide to its distance. Hubble leveraged a discovery ... realizing there were two different types of Cepheid variables.