This new image showcases NGC 346, a dazzling young star cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud. ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Nota, P. Massey, E. Sabbi, C. Murray, M. Zamani (ESA/Hubble) This month sees a ...

In the 1920s, Edwin Hubble was working with the 100-inch Hooker telescope on Mount Wilson, just outside Los Angeles. At the time, it was the largest telescope in the world. On a chilly evening, I ...

You can find NASA’s Hubble telescope gallery here.. The Hubble telescope. The Hubble Space Telescope orbits just above Earth’s atmosphere at an altitude of approximately 320 miles.

You can find NASA’s Hubble telescope gallery here.. The Hubble telescope. The Hubble Space Telescope orbits just above Earth’s atmosphere at an altitude of approximately 320 miles.

Many people have heard of the Keck Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope, but few realize just how many powerful telescopes we have in the world, and in space. Because the objects they study ...

The Hubble Space Telescope and its upcoming ... LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION. Hubble circles ... HUBBLE AND WEBB NAMESAKES: Astronomer Edwin Hubble confirmed a century ago that countless ...

But 100 years ago, astronomer Edwin P. Hubble (1889-1953), working at the Mount Wilson Observatory in California, made a stunning discovery: He calculated that a spiral nebula called Andromeda was ...

When the Hooker Telescope first looked skyward in 1917, no one knew what wonders it might reveal. Within a decade, astronomer Edwin Hubble used it — then the largest telescope in the world, at ...

It's been more than 100 years since Edwin Hubble lived on Everett Avenue in Louisville and taught at a New Albany, Ind., high school — but it's hard to find a sign of the influential astronomer ...

After a series of setbacks, most famously the "Challenger" incident, the $1.5 billion dollar project; the Hubble Space Telescope (which got its name from Edwin Hubble, an accomplished astronomer ...

A young Edwin Hubble at Mount Wilson's 100-inch telescope circa 1922, ready to make history. In the 1920s, Edwin Hubble was working with the 100-inch Hooker telescope on Mount Wilson, just outside ...

Amid this week's hoopla celebrating the Hubble Space Telescope, don't forget the clever astronomer for whom the space scope was named. In the 1920s, he changed our sense of ourselves and the universe.