The Hubble Space Telescope has provided the most detailed survey of the Andromeda galaxy, revealing new clues about its ...
To celebrate the 100-year Edwin Hubble discovery that Andromeda was a galaxy outside our own, astronomers release the most ...
A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...
Professor James Binney, Emeritus Professor at the University of Oxford’s Department of Physics, has been awarded the Royal ...
Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...
Hubble's discovery of expanding galaxies confirmed the universe's vastness, laying the foundation for the Big Bang theory and ...
在可观测宇宙之中,遍布着成千上万亿个星系。但只有一个星系因其特殊的地位而独树一帜,它就是银河系邻近区域最重要的“恒星岛”——仙女星系(M31)。‍一百多年前,许多天文学家认为仙女星系是位于银河系内的“旋涡星云”。但在1925年1月,天文学家埃德温·哈勃(Edwin ...
Hubble Space Telescope mapped Andromeda, revealing a chaotic history shaped by mergers. A 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows 200 ...
The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...
The Hubble Space Telescope has created a 2.5-billion-pixel image of the Andromeda galaxy, our closest neighbour ...