A previously unexplored globular cluster glitters with multicolored stars in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. Globular ...

If we could go back 101 years, we would encounter a time when scientists still thought the Milky Way was the entirety of our universe. But, if we went back 100 years instead, we would find most ...

Hubble captures forgotten globular cluster ESO 591-12 in rare detail ESO 591-12 sparkles with red and blue stars of varying ...

This portrait from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope puts the nearby galaxy NGC 4449 in the spotlight. The galaxy is ...

The Andromeda galaxy is also known as Messier 31. It is a spiral galaxy located about 2.5 million light-years from Earth. On ...

Hubble wrote about his discovery to Harlow Shapley, who had argued that the Milky Way encompassed the entire universe. “Here is the letter that destroyed my universe,” Shapley remarked .

New data show a 50% chance the Milky Way won't collide with Andromeda. ... American astronomer Edwin Hubble calculated in 1929 that galaxies were moving away from the Milky Way, All of them ...

The Milky Way and Andromeda are part of a cluster of about 100 galaxies, held together by gravity, known as the "local group." For more than a century, scientists have known Andromeda is creeping ...

New study finds that the Milky Way has a 50-50 chance of colliding with neighboring galaxy Andromeda Astronomers now believe the Milky Way’s “inevitable” collision with a neighboring galaxy ...

But the only way to get to a new prediction about the eventual fate of the Milky Way will be with even better data.” DOI: Nature Astronomy, 2025. 10.1038/s41550-025-02563-1 ( About DOIs ).

Shapley determined that the Milky Way was 300,000 light years across, and that our solar system was 50,000 light-years from the center. While today we know the more accurate values are 100,000 ...