On the night of October 5-6, 1923, Carnegie astronomer Edwin P. Hubble took a plate of the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31) with the Hooker 100-inch telescope of the Mount Wilson Observatory. This plate, ...

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

Hubble's discovery of expanding galaxies confirmed the universe's vastness, laying the foundation for the Big Bang theory and ...

Controversial new findings have reignited the longstanding cosmological quarrel involving what astronomers call the "Hubble ...

According to historical records, we have one man to thank for this: Edwin Hubble. That's certainly partly the truth, but he couldn't have done it without the genius of others around him who paved ...

It wasn’t until 1949 that the term “big bang” came into fashion. This was a relief to Edwin Hubble’s contemporary, Albert Einstein ... He was partly right in that Einstein’s theory of special ...

Edwin Hubble first identified the Universe’s expansion in 1929 ... He describes it as building a growth chart: there’s a baby picture from the Big Bang and a current picture of our galactic ...

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“The Big Bang Theory absolutely changed everything for me,” Robertson adds. “It’s been like having a number one hit multiple times a year, every year for the past decade. It’s the gift t ...

Determining the expansion rate of the Universe — known as the Hubble constant — has been a major scientific pursuit ever since 1929, when Edwin Hubble ... it had at the Big Bang, but how ...