In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...
Around 13.7 billion years ago, something collapsed. It fell outward into the nothingness that stretched in every direction, ...
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.
Edwin Hubble was young and ambitious ... His measurements marked the end of the Great Debate about the Milky Way's size and the nature of the nebulae. Hubble wrote about his discovery to Harlow ...
Hubble makes his mark Edwin Hubble was young and ambitious ... His measurements marked the end of the Great Debate about the Milky Way’s size and the nature of the nebulae.