On Oct. 4, 1923, Edwin Hubble took a photographic plate of the Andromeda Nebula (as it was known then) using the 100-inch Hooker telescope at Mount Wilson. The next night, Oct. 5th, he took another ...

"Beyond the Milky Way lie billions of other galaxies, drifting a few million light years from one another like lily pads floating on the surface of a pond." — Timothy Ferris in Seeing in the Dark A ...

Edwin Powell Hubble was born on November 20, 1889, in Marshfield, Missouri. In high school he was known for his sports prowess. He led the University of Chicago basketball team to their first Big Ten ...

Photo: Andromeda nebula plate with Hubble's handwritten circle around the variable star he discovered In 1919 American astronomer Edwin Hubble began work at the Mount Wilson Observatory in California, ...

The nearby satellite galaxy M32 can also be seen as a bright ball on the upper edge of Andromeda's disk while the milky splash of light below is in fact the elliptical galaxy Messier 110, which plays ...

The article details various types of deep-sky objects observable by amateur astronomers, including double stars, variable stars, open and globular star clusters, emission, planetary, and reflection ...

How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit back on a lawn chair. Your neighbors may think you’ve cracked up sitting out ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

The Cassiopeia constellation, easily recognizable by its W-shaped asterism, is visible in the Northern Hemisphere's autumn and winter, and circumpolar above 46° north latitude. Cassiopeia contains ...