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Students and faculty at BYU’s Department of Physics and Astronomy understand the value of the stars, and they dedicate their ...
Particular stars called Cepheid variables allow astronomers to determine distance, and Hubble spotted one of these within M31 ...
Dr Edwin Powell Hubble, who lends his name to the iconic Hubble Space Telescope, was one of the leading astronomers of the ...
Are we living in a cosmic void? New theory suggests our galaxy sits in a giant hole warping the universe's expansion.
Earth and our entire Milky Way galaxy may sit inside a mysterious giant hole which makes the cosmos expand faster here than ...
Object Details Artist Unidentified Artist Sitter Edwin Powell Hubble, 20 Nov 1889 - 28 Sep 1953 Exhibition Label Born Marshfield, Missouri The famed Hubble Space Telescope takes its name from one of ...
"Uranus is weird, so it's always been uncertain how much the magnetic field actually interacts with its satellites." New data from the Hubble Space Telescope suggests that Uranus' largest moons ...
Hubble's data points to a slow inward drift of dust from Uranus' distant irregular moons, which orbit between 2.5 to 13 million miles (4 to 20 million kilometers) from the planet.
NASA’s Webb telescope reveals monster star clumps in galactic wreckage Surveying luminous infrared galaxies in the local universe, astronomers have obtained a rare glimpse into processes shaping ...
Even a century after Edward Hubble confirmed its existence, astronomers learn new details about the Andromeda galaxy that help us better understand our cosmic neighborhood and the wider universe.
Each full image snapped by the observatory’s 8.4-meter Simonyi Survey Telescope and 3,200-megapixel LSST Camera would require 400 4K high-definition television screens to display at its original ...