One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, a young Edwin Hubble settled astronomy’s ‘Great Debate.’
In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...
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What will happen to the solar system when the Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxy merge?
What will happen to the solar system when the Milky Way completes the merger with the Andromeda Galaxy? Bryan ...
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Hubble Telescope sets its eyes on cosmic cotton candy near the Tarantula Nebula (photo)
Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.
Exploring Andromeda’s past through Nasa’s Hubble Space telescope
Since Hubble’s launch, astronomers have discovered over 1 trillion galaxies, but Andromeda stands out as the closest and most ...
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Science Museum of Virginia’s ‘The Dome’ to showcase NASA’s new Andromeda Galaxy mosaic
Astronomers spent a decade compiling this special image with the Hubble Space Telescope and then stitched together 600 photos ...
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7 Breathtaking Images Of The Andromeda Galaxy Captured By NASA
Scientists predict Andromeda and the Milky Way will collide in about 4.5 billion years—reshaping the night sky forever!.
Andromeda Galaxy: A barred spiral galaxy, the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way. It was originally named Andromeda Nebula.
Centaurus A: NGC 5128 is a galaxy in constellation Centaurus, discovered in 1826 by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop. Messier ...
This massive ‘bouquet’ is actually where stars have been born for 25 million years
A nebula that neighbors the Milky Way galaxy happens to be a powerhouse of forging stars, "a bouquet of thousands of stars in ...