In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

Edwin Hubble was young and ambitious ... His measurements marked the end of the Great Debate about the Milky Way’s size and the nature of the nebulae. Hubble wrote about his discovery to ...

Edwin Hubble was young and ambitious ... His measurements marked the end of the Great Debate about the Milky Way’s size and the nature of the nebulae. Hubble wrote about his discovery to ...

In an era defined by extreme geopolitical volatility, where our future as a global society feels more unpredictable than ever ...

Around 13.7 billion years ago, something collapsed. It fell outward into the nothingness that stretched in every direction, ...

American astronomer Edwin Hubble was the one who made the discovery ... made it clear that Andromeda lies far beyond our own Milky Way, thus proving that it had to be another galaxy.

Without dark matter, our own galaxy, the Milky Way, would be unable to maintain the cohesion ... Photo: Michel Caron - UdeS Thanks to the discoveries made by astronomer Edwin Hubble in 1929, we know ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

The telescope will be able to look at a patch of sky 100 times larger than both the Hubble Space Telescope and the James ... new surveys of the structure of the Milky Way; and new studies of dark ...