colliding galaxies, and runaway black holes, among the celestial fireworks of the interplay between matter and energy. Edwin Hubble was the first astronomer to take the initial steps that would ...

Edwin Powell Hubble is renowned for determining that there are other galaxies in the Universe beyond the Milky Way, and for observing that the universe is expanding at a constant rate. Hubble was ...

He came to realize that what we thought was a gas or star cluster in the Milky Way was actually another galaxy, and that the Milky Way was just one of many galaxies in the universe. Hubble ...

In this image captured by the Hubble ... on a course to collide with the larger galaxy known as Andromeda. While this might sound scary, the huge space between stars in both galaxies means that ...

colliding galaxies, and runaway black holes, among the celestial fireworks of the interplay between matter and energy. Edwin Hubble was the first astronomer to take the initial steps that would ...

It was the first evidence of galaxies outside our own, and Hubble soon went on to discover about 23 more galaxies.

Meanwhile, Hubble went on to study still more distant galaxies, and make the discovery for which he is most famous: that the further away from us a galaxy is, the faster it is moving away.

The Antennae Galaxies (also known as NGC 4038 and 4039) are a pair of distorted colliding spiral galaxies ... light observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Disclaimer: AAAS and ...

So here—just in case you missed them—are eight great galaxies photographed by Hubble that have been published in the last couple of months. NGC 7513, a barred spiral galaxy, located ...