The Hubble Space Telescope’s latest stunning images have allowed scientists to solve the mystery of the Bullseye Galaxy’s ...

The Bullseye galaxy earned its nickname thanks to its wild number of rings. A smaller galaxy shot through its heart 50 ...

In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...

Hubble’s high-resolution imagery allowed researchers to hone in on more of the Bullseye galaxy’s rings — and helped confirm ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Circa 1945: Astronomer Dr. Edwin Powell Hubble sitting in a chair at a desk reading a journal.

The Bullseye is now confirmed to have nine rings, eight of which are visible to Hubble. Researchers confirmed the existence ...

"It's easy to romanticize Hubble and his discovery of the universe beyond the Milky Way galaxy, but his work really stood on the shoulders of a number of people," said Jeff Rich, an astronomer at ...

It seemed that these redshifted galaxies were all moving away from the Milky Way. Hubble's results suggested the farther away a galaxy was, the faster it was moving away from Earth. Hubble got the ...

At a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in January 1925, a paper read by one of his colleagues on his behalf reported that the Andromeda nebula, also called M31, was nearly a million light ...

The Andromeda galaxy helped Edwin Hubble settle a great debate in astronomy. Stocktrek Images via Getty Images ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured this striking image of an unusual galaxy with a bullseye structure, as nine rings ...