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Science history: Edwin Hubble uncovers the vastness of the universe with discovery of 'standard candle' — Oct. 5, 1923

On the night of Oct. 5, 1923, Edwin Hubble observed a strange star that flickered in intensity at regular intervals. The star, dubbed M31-V1, was key to showing that the universe extended far beyond the borders of the Milky Way.

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Fixing the Hubble Space Telescope: A timeline of NASA's shuttle servicing missions

Spacewalking astronauts repaired and upgraded the famed Hubble Telescope during five missions from 1993 to 2009. Here's a summary of these epic servicing efforts.

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Universe may revolve once every 500 billion years — and that could solve a problem that threatened to break cosmology

A slowly spinning universe could resolve a puzzle in physics known as the Hubble tension, a new model suggests.

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One Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies?

100 years ago, a young Edwin Hubble settled astronomy’s "Great Debate"

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One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, a young Edwin Hubble settled astronomy’s ‘Great Debate’

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. 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…

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'Herculean' 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows our closest galactic neighbor like never before — and took more than a decade to create

The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with more than 200 million individually resolved stars.

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It took a decade for NASA to piece together this 416,592,960 pixel image of the Andromeda galaxy and the key takeaway? 'Andromeda's a train wreck'

"It looks like it has been through some kind of event that caused it to form a lot of stars and then just shut down”

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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope creates largest photomosaic ever made of "train wreck" Andromeda galaxy with over 2.5 billion pixels

It took 10 years, 1,000 Hubble orbits, and required over 600 overlapping images

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100 years ago, Edwin Hubble proved our Milky Way galaxy isn't alone

A century ago, humans didn't know other galaxies existed. Here's how Edwin Hubble changed that view.

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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope celebrates 10 years of keeping its lens trained on the giants of the solar system

The NASA OPAL project was designed to monitor the atmospheric changes on Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus

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NASA Hubble Space Telescope spots cosmic eye staring straight back at it from deep space

The Hubble Telescope has spotted an unusual spiral galaxy – 76 million light-years away – that resembles an eye

Digital Camera World

How to watch 'Cunk on Life' online from anywhere now – streaming info, free options

The interrogator we never knew we needed has returned to find out what exactly is going on. Here's how to watch "Cunk on Life" online, on TV and from anywhere in the world.

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The Dark Energy Camera captures new image of one of the most prominent spiral galaxies in incredible detail

Messier 83 was discovered in 1752, but it wasn't realized that it's actually a galaxy outside the Milky Way until Edwin Hubble

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Bringing the universe into focus

In “Pillars of Creation,” Richard Panek shows how the James Webb Space Telescope is altering our view of the cosmos

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James Webb challenges cosmic theories

New research using clearer images from JWST are further complicating the so-called Hubble tension

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What is the universe expanding into if it’s already infinite?

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com.

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It’s 100 years since we learned the Milky Way is not the only galaxy

On Sunday November 23 1924, 100 years ago this month, readers perusing page six of the New York Times would have found an intriguing article, amid several large adverts for fur coats. The headline read: Finds Spiral Nebulae are Stellar Systems: “Dr Hubbell Confirms View That They Are ‘Island Universes’;…

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It all started with a Big Bang – the quest to unravel the mystery behind the birth of the universe

How did everything begin? It’s a question that humans have pondered for thousands of years. Over the last century or so, science has homed in on an answer: the Big Bang.

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Astronomers can’t agree on how fast the universe is expanding. New approaches are aiming to break the impasse

It is almost 100 years since scientists discovered the universe is expanding. In the decades that followed, the accuracy of the measurements, and interpretations and implications of this discovery, were a source of fierce debate. We now know the universe emerged dramatically from a highly compressed state in an event…

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Hubble Telescope spots a stunning spiral galaxy shining in the 'Little Lion' (image)

A new Hubble Telescope image shines a spotlight on a classic spiral galaxy named NGC 3430.

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Weird physics at the edges of black holes may help resolve lingering 'Hubble trouble'

The expansion of the universe may not be accelerating at the edges of black holes. If this is the case at all event horizons, this may explain "Hubble tension," and the worst prediction in physics.

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100 Years Ago, One Astronomer Massively Expanded Our Understanding Of the Universe

Astronomers, maybe more than anyone, appreciate what an island of perfection our Earth is. In 1924, this appreciation took on a whole new level of undersatnding.

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Scientists Share About The Possibility Of Existence Of Other Universes, People Are Intrigued

Vera C. Rubin Observatory, with the largest camera ever built, might finally find evidence of the multiverse, which seemed like some kind of science fiction for decades. The post Scientists Share About The Possibility Of Existence Of Other Universes, People Are Intrigued first appeared on Bored Panda.

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The Hubble telescope has shifted into one-gyro mode after months of technical issues − an aerospace engineering expert explains

Imagine keeping a laser beam trained on a dime that’s 200 miles away. Now imagine doing that continuously for 24 hours, while riding a merry-go-round. Seem difficult? Well, that’s basically what the Hubble Space Telescope does.

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Where is the center of the universe?

The universe is undeniably vast, and from our perspective, it may seem like Earth is in the middle of everything. But is there a center of the cosmos, and if so, where is it? If the Big Bang started the universe, then where did it all come from, and where…

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