Curtis argued that the spiral nebulas were galaxies in their own right, but said that the Milky Way was only 10,000 light years across. Shapley argued the opposite. Hubble enters the fray Edwin ...

New data show a 50% chance the Milky Way won't collide with Andromeda. A merger with the Large Magellanic Cloud is far more ...

Edwin Hubble was young and ambitious ... His measurements marked the end of the Great Debate about the Milky Way’s size and ...

Edwin Hubble was young and ambitious ... His measurements marked the end of the Great Debate about the Milky Way’s size and the nature of the nebulae. Hubble wrote about his discovery to ...

Astronomers now believe the Milky Way’s “inevitable” collision with a neighboring galaxy is much less likely than originally thought.

Both the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxies (M31) are part of what's known as the Local Group (LG), which also hosts other ...

observations by fellow astronomer Edwin Hubble showed that the Milky Way did not encompass the cosmos, and that myriad galaxies exist beyond our own. Hubble’s findings revolutionized humanity ...

That Rich was presenting the story of Edwin Hubble at the January 2025 AAS meeting ... Rich describes the discovery of the universe beyond the Milky Way as being a revelation centuries in the ...

Edwin Hubble was young and ambitious ... His measurements marked the end of the Great Debate about the Milky Way’s size and the nature of the nebulae. Hubble wrote about his discovery to ...