To celebrate the 100-year Edwin Hubble discovery that Andromeda was a galaxy outside our own, astronomers release the most detailed Andromeda Galaxy image ever.

Circa 1945: Astronomer Dr. Edwin Powell Hubble sitting in a chair at a desk reading a journal. A staff member at Mt. Wilson Observatory, he was the first scientist to offer observational evidence ...

funded in part by contributions from the Detroit-based McGregor and Rackham Funds and developed in close collaboration with astronomers from the esteemed Mt. Wilson solar observatory in California ...

Astronomers now know that galaxies are isolated systems of stars, much smaller than the space between them. Hubble makes his mark Edwin Hubble was young and ambitious. At the of age 30, he arrived at ...

Many astronomers long believed that the edge ... the Andromeda galaxy, at the Mount Wilson Observatory high above Los Angeles. In short, Edwin Hubble is the man who wiped away the ancient universe ...

Astronomers as far back as the mid-18th ... At the of age 30, he arrived at Mount Wilson Observatory in Southern California just in time to use the new Hooker 100-inch telescope, at the time ...