If you have access to an 8-inch or larger telescope, look in the northern part of the constellation Andromeda the Princessfor ...

On New Year’s Day, 1925, attendees at an astronomical conference heard one of the most influential scientific presentations of all time. It proved the Andromeda Nebula is immensely distant from Earth, ...

"Beyond the Milky Way lie billions of other galaxies, drifting a few million light years from one another like lily pads floating on the surface of a pond." — Timothy Ferris in Seeing in the Dark A ...

The article details various types of deep-sky objects observable by amateur astronomers, including double stars, variable stars, open and globular star clusters, emission, planetary, and reflection ...

How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit back on a lawn chair. Your neighbors may think you’ve cracked up sitting out ...

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 ...

Edwin Powell Hubble was born on November 20, 1889, in Marshfield, Missouri. In high school he was known for his sports prowess. He led the University of Chicago basketball team to their first Big Ten ...

A century ago, Edwin Hubble began the race to the edge of the cosmos Damond Benningfield In 1930, Albert Einstein met with astronomers (including Edwin Hubble, at Einstein's left, back row) at Mount ...

Michael Bakich selected visually stunning celestial objects observed through telescopes, including Omega Centauri, the 2010 total solar eclipse over Easter Island, Thor's Helmet nebula, and the Jewel ...

Photo: Andromeda nebula plate with Hubble's handwritten circle around the variable star he discovered In 1919 American astronomer Edwin Hubble began work at the Mount Wilson Observatory in California, ...