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 ...
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'Enticing empire of stars:' See Andromeda galaxy in newly released NASA images
Observations show Andromeda has a more active star formation history than the Milky Way, potentially due to a past galactic ...
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6 Things to Know About SPHEREx, NASA’s Newest Space Telescope
Shaped like a megaphone, the upcoming mission will map the entire sky in infrared light to answer big questions about the ...
7 breathtaking images of Milky Way captured by NASA
This stunning image of NGC 6951 is captured by NASA's Hubble Telescope. It is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Cepheus. It is located at a distance of about 75 million light-years ...
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Check Out the Hubble Space Telescope’s Stunning New View of the Andromeda Galaxy
The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...
NASA's Hubble traces hidden history of Andromeda galaxy
In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...
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NASA X-ray telescope Chandra discovers black holes 'blow' on their food to cool it down
Observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope and the VLT have revealed jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause ...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope creates largest photomosaic ever made of "train wreck" Andromeda galaxy with over 2.5 billion pixels
The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...
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NASA’s Hubble shows off sparkling Tarantula Nebula, where the biggest stars are born
NASA’s recent Image of the Day was the outer regions of the Tarantula Nebula, which is billed as one of the biggest and ...
It took a decade for NASA to piece together this 416,592,960 pixel image of the Andromeda galaxy and the key takeaway? 'Andromeda's a train wreck'
"It looks like it has been through some kind of event that caused it to form a lot of stars and then just shut down” ...
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'Enticing empire of stars:' See Andromeda galaxy in newly released NASA images
NASA recently released images of the Andromeda galaxy, an "enticing empire of stars ... 2.5 million light-years away from the Milky Way. The observations recorded by Hubble yield new clues ...