Curtis argued that the spiral nebulas were galaxies in their own right, but said that the Milky Way was only 10,000 light years across. Shapley argued the opposite. Hubble enters the fray Edwin ...

The beloved Hubble Space Telescope is reaching its 35th anniversary, and over the years it has taken some stunning images.

In the century or so since Edwin Hubble discovered that the Milky Way is just one of countless galaxies in the universe, our understanding of our home galaxy has grown in leaps and bounds.

observations by fellow astronomer Edwin Hubble showed that the Milky Way did not encompass the cosmos, and that myriad galaxies exist beyond our own. Hubble’s findings revolutionized humanity ...

Just about everyone has heard of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope — not too surprising considering that it has been with us for ...

Were they part of the Milky Way or entire galaxies on their own? Edwin Hubble set out to answer this cosmic riddle. Vesto Slipher's observations of redshifted light revealed that spiral nebulae ...

Say hello to one of the Milky Way's neighbors! This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a scene from one of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC).

Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling stars. The image features a small region of the SMC near the center of NGC ...

Colour image of J23453268-0449256, which is 300,000 light-years across, as captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. It is shown alongside a depiction of our own Milky Way galaxy, which is three ...

This prolific star factory is in the Small Magellanic Cloud, one of the largest of the Milky Way's satellite galaxies. As part of ESA/Hubble's 35th anniversary celebrations, a new image series is ...