Unlike spirals, elliptical galaxies don't have much ambient gas ... astronomers including Edwin Hubble and Georges Lemaître discovered that light from distant galaxies was redshifted, with ...

At Mount Wilson Observatory near Pasadena, the astronomer Harlow Shapley in 1918–19 established that the Sun is located toward one edge of our galaxy, and Edwin Hubble in 1929 determined that ...

The Hubble Space Telescope launched on April 24, 1990, aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-31), and deployed into Earth ...

Thirty-five years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit. It's been sending back galactic data and images ...

As part of ESA/Hubble's 35th anniversary ... the structure of the Sombrero Galaxy. It's not clear whether it's a spiral galaxy, like our own Milky Way, or an elliptical galaxy.

Astronomers are applying new image-processing techniques to previously released Hubble observations in honor of the space ...

The image was published as part of the 35th anniversary celebrations of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, which was ...

The stunning pictures capture both our neighbouring planets and galaxies far ... The telescope, created by Edwin Hubble, has taken countless worldview-shattering photos with its equipped ...

The photos capture both our neighboring planets and galaxies far ... general objective of “understanding the Universe.” Edwin Hubble was the creator of the great space tool, which has taken ...