#edwin hubble

[theofficialastronomy101]

M1-46 PNe "The Fractured Web Nebula"

Our first photograph of this mysterious nebula.

5000 megapixels

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Hubble Ultra-Deep Field

“The Hubble Ultra Deep Field, is an image of a small region of space in the constellation Fornax, composited from Hubble Space Telescope data accumulated over a period from September 3, 2003 through January 16, 2004. The patch of sky in which the galaxies reside was chosen because it had a low density of bright stars in the near-field.” - via Wikimedia Commons

[cosmonautroger]

Edwin Hubble, Andromeda Galaxy, 1923

[livingforstars]

Edwin Hubble Discovers the Universe - June 21st, 1998.

"No person in history has had greater impact in determining the extent of our Universe than Edwin Hubble. From proving that other galaxies existed to proving that galaxies move apart from one another, Hubble's work defined our place in the cosmos. Hubble lived from 1889 to 1953 and is shown above posing with the 48-inch telescope on Palomar Mountain and his famous pipe. In memory of his great work, the Orbiting Space Telescope was named after him. The rate of the Universe's expansion is now parameterised by a quantity known as Hubble's constant. A debate on the value of Hubble's constant took place in 1996."

[blasteffect]

Happy birthday to our namesake, astronomer Edwin Hubble! 🎂

Here's a look at what Hubble (the telescope!) observed on November 20: a pair of interacting galaxies, named Arp 148.

Courtesy: NASA

[spacetelescopescience]

We are joining Carnegie Science in celebrating the 100th anniversary of Edwin Hubble’s discovery of galaxies existing beyond our Milky Way. He found a stellar “milepost marker” embedded in Andromeda and calculated it is outside our galaxy: https://bit.ly/40r30L6

[stone-cold-groove]

Palomar’s giant eye… Collier’s magazine cover illustration detail - May 1949.

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