Andromeda Galaxy

but because of his research, Hubble was able to estimate that Andromeda Nebula thought as a spiral at the time was nearly 900,000 light years away from us, thus it had to be its own galaxy. Andromeda Nebula was later proven to be nearly 2.48 million light years. The Andromeda Nebula was later renamed the Andromeda Galaxy. In the early 1920s, Edwin began conducting new research, along with fellow friend Milton Humason, on the galaxies' spectral and distances, particularly looking at their…

Many of us, while still in grade school, learned about the staggering distances to planets, stars and galaxies. The sun is approximately 150 million km or 93 million miles away, a distance that is known as the "astronomical unit" (AU). Venus, our closest neighbor, is 0.72 AU from the sun, while Mars is 1.52 AU from the sun. Neptune, the most distant planet, is 30 AU from the sun (i.e., 44.8 billion km or 27.9 billion miles). The Voyager 2 spacecraft, launched in 1977, reached Jupiter just two…

It was in 1922 that the modern-day constellations were recognized by the International Astronomical Union(IAU), and in 1930, Belgian astronomer Eugene Delporte defined the borders of the 88 official constellations, a leap from a simple informal representation and interpretation of the heavens based on the shapes made by their star patterns. Constellations are much more than exquisite astronomical images in the sky. They have different meaning in different cultures, tell amazing stories, and…

Edwin Hubble was an Astronomer and scientist who changed our entire cosmology and revolutionized the field of astrophysics. Hubble’s research helped to prove the universe is expanding and he also created a classification system for galaxies we now call the Hubble sequence. He has been called one of the most influential astronomers since the times of Galileo, Kepler and Newton.On November 20th, 1889 in Marshfield, Missouri, Edwin Hubble was born to parents John Powell Hubble, an insurance…

The Milky Way is the galaxy our sun is in. It is most important to us humans because its our home. When you look up at the night sky and see a bright strip of clustered stars, that is the center of our galaxy. The ancients describes this as a river, as milk and as a path. The latin name for the Milky Way is Via Lactea. That means “the road of milk.” The greeks called our galaxy, Galaxias kyklos or milky circle. The greeks called it the “milky circle” because of the myth. The greek myth is that…

the Great Square of Pegasus, a familiar asterism in the northern sky, as well as for a number of bright stars and deep sky objects, among them Messier 15 (NGC 7078, Cumulo de Pegaso), Stephan’s Quintet of galaxies, the Einstein Cross (a gravitationally lensed quasar), and the unbarred spiral galaxy NGC 7742 His story begins when Perseus, said to be the son of Zeus, is sent to kill Medusa by a man who wanted to marry his mother but did not…

Mass Effect: Andromenda --New Galaxy Takes A Step Back The first thing anyone does when they get a new BioWare game is create their character's look. Mass Effect: Andromeda missed the mark on this in a major way. It's so bad, they're fixing it. I decided I would play with Scott Ryder, who I renamed Jules. There's 12 different hair styles. I didn't/don't like any of them. This is the example of what I like to call the suck. They're all bad, this is the worst one. WTF is this? When I…

interesting body to see in the sky is the planet Venus. (It is the hottest planet at 867 degrees Fahrenheit and glows a dull red because the rocks on the surface are so hot) The brightest star in the sky, (after our sun) is Sirius which is in the Andromeda galaxy, appearing as a fuzzy cloud. It is the most distant object visible to the naked eye and is 2.9 million light-years away. In case you are a weird freak like me, here are also a few fun facts. In 1770, the comet Lexell passed the earth at…

confirmations of a planet. Its next major discovery was in 2000 when Keck measured the motion of stars around a black hole in the center of the Milky Way galaxy which helped astronomers determine the exact center of the Milky Way. There were two large discoveries made by Keck in 2005. The first is when it found that the diameter of the Andromeda galaxy is three times further than thought having estimates of 220,000 light years across compared to the previous estimate of 70,000 light years. The…

Which at the time only viewed the Milky Way, because it was thought that that was how large the universe was. Edwin Hubble was responsible for the founding of the Cepheid, a type of star, in the Andromeda Nebulae in the year 1924, at the top of Mt. Wilson. Another great achievement that happened in Hubble’s life in the year 1924 was when he happily married Grace Burke in Pasadena, California, and even though the couple never had children they remained…