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Happy Birthday Dr Edwin Hubble! 135th anniversary of the astronomer who gave his name to the Hubble Space Telescope
Dr Edwin Powell Hubble, who lends his name to the iconic Hubble Space Telescope, was one of the leading astronomers of the twentieth century. Born 135 years ago today on 20 November 1889 ...
One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, a young Edwin Hubble settled astronomy’s ‘Great Debate’
In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...
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100 years ago, Edwin Hubble proved our Milky Way galaxy isn't alone
According to historical records, we have one man to thank for this: Edwin Hubble. That's certainly partly the truth, but he couldn't have done it without the genius of others around him who paved ...
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NASA Celebrates Hubble's Discovery of the Expanding Universe
Edwin Hubble's discovery of the expanding universe transformed cosmology, revealing countless galaxies and laying the ...
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One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, a young Edwin Hubble settled astronomy’s ‘Great Debate’
Chris Impey, University of Arizona (THE CONVERSATION) A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the American Astronomical ...