“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

Messier 87 (M87), also known as Virgo A or NGC 4486, is a supergiant elliptical galaxy in the Virgo constellation. It is one ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of the Westerlund 2 cluster marks Hubble's 25th year in orbit, celebrating 25 years of discoveries, stunning images, and groundbreaking science. The Hubble ...

Edwin Hubble seated at the 2.5-metre reflecting telescope at the Mount Wilson Observatory in California. (Edwin P. Hubble Papers/Huntington Library) He identified a star called V1, a Cepheid ...

Astronomers have released the most detailed image of the Andromeda galaxy with new clues about its evolutionary history to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Edwin Hubble's discovery that our ...

Edwin Hubble was young and ambitious. At the of age 30, he arrived at Mount Wilson Observatory in Southern California just in time to use the new Hooker 100-inch telescope, at the time the largest ...

Edwin Hubble was young and ambitious. At the age of 30, he arrived at Mount Wilson Observatory in Southern California just in time to use the new Hooker 100-inch telescope, at the time the largest in ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin ... since Hubble’s pioneering work, astronomers like me have learned that the universe is vast and contains trillions of galaxies. In 1610, astronomer Galileo ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Chris Impey, University of Arizona (THE CONVERSATION) A hundred years ago ...