This article, originally titled "The Man Who Discovered the Universe," is from the Summer 2025 issue of Air & Space Quarterly ...

The Andromeda galaxy helped Edwin Hubble settle a great debate in astronomy. Stocktrek Images via Getty Images A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known ...

In commemoration of Edwin Hubble's discovery of a Cepheid variable class star, called V1, in the neighboring Andromeda galaxy 100 years ago, astronomers partnered with the American Association of ...

Around 13.7 billion years ago, something collapsed. It fell outward into the nothingness that stretched in every direction, leaving something behind. A dense plasma, made of fundamental particles ...

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 a ...

Astronomers, maybe more than anyone, appreciate what an island of perfection our Earth is. Our orbit may put us at a perfect distance from the sun for life to flourish, but it is too small to easily ...

Birthed from the minds of astronomers Edwin Hubble and Milton Humason, the Hubble constant has long been our closest attempt at understanding the universe's rate of expansion. However, recent attempts ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A new building proposed in Cherokee Triangle is being designed with one of its most famous former residents in mind. The new building that would go on Highland Avenue would be named ...

The discovery that the universe extends beyond the Milky Way galaxy was a pivotal moment in astronomy. In 1925, astronomer Edwin Hubble identified a Cepheid variable star, known as V1, in the ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in January 1925, a paper read by one of his ...

The freshly spotted galaxy offers a rare glimpse of our universe when it was young, less than 300 million years after the Big Bang. The Hubble Space Telescope recently imaged a nearly edge-on view of ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The famed Hubble Space Telescope ...