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@n8foo@macaw.social
2024-11-23 19:32:24

Today is the 100th anniversary of Edwin Hubble discovering that those fuzzy clouds were actually other galaxies! #lookup #space #Astronomy

New York Times from Sunday, November 23, 1924. A headline reads: Finds spiral nebula are stellar systems, Dr. Hubbell Confirms View That They Are 'Island Universes'
Similar to Our Own.

@n8foo@macaw.social
2024-11-18 06:17:45

Still up? Go check out the moon. 🌕 The bright object nearby is Jupiter, a gas giant planet 385,650,657 miles away from Earth (as of 10 minutes ago). #lookUp

A picture of the sky, including a low line, cloud bank melting into the moon. A bright object in shines brightly to the right