The Andromeda galaxy, our closest spiral neighbor to the Milky Way, becomes prominently visible in the night sky during ...
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Over the course of human history, perhaps no single object in the night sky has drawn more attention than the Andromeda ...
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"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 ...
Astronomer Harlow Shapley thought the Milky Way constituted the entire universe, while his rival Heber Curtis had done a rough measurement of the distance to neighboring Andromeda ... it was a ...
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A century ago, Edwin Hubble began the race to the edge of the cosmos Damond Benningfield In 1930, Albert Einstein met with astronomers (including Edwin Hubble, at Einstein's left, back row) at Mount ...
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 ...
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 ...