One Large Milky Way Galaxy Or Many Galaxies? 100 Years Ago, A Young Edwin Hubble Settled Astronomy's 'Great Debate'
A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...
The Star That Proved the Universe Is Bigger Than We Imagined
Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...
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One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, a young Edwin Hubble settled astronomy’s ‘Great Debate’
In 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei used the ... At the of age 30, he arrived at Mount Wilson Observatory in Southern California just in time to use the new Hooker 100-inch telescope, at the ...
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Hubble's new masterpiece took 10 years and captured 200 million stars in Andromeda
Hubble Space Telescope mapped Andromeda, revealing a chaotic history shaped by mergers. A 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows 200 ...
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Mt. Wilson Stations Rely on Generators
Power outages continue to disrupt southern California’s Mount Wilson for a second week, forcing broadcasters to rely on backup generators. On Saturday, Southern California Edison restored power to the ...
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These 26 hiking trails burned in the Eaton fire
Wilson. Other popular areas, including the Gabrielino Trail and the Mt. Wilson Observatory, were spared. An accounting of the damage of the Eaton fire is still ongoing. Since starting in early ...
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Astronomers Discover Supersonic Winds on a ‘Puffy’ Exoplanet, Forming a Record-Breaking Jet Stream
Moving at roughly 20,505 miles per hour along the distant world's equator, it’s the fastest known jet stream that wraps ...
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Nepal increases Mount Everest climbing fee to $15,000
Nepal will increase the permit fees for climbing Mount Everest by more than 35%, making the world’s tallest peak more expensive for mountaineers for the first time in nearly a decade ...