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100 years ago: Edwin Hubble proved the Milky Way is not the only galaxy in the universe
In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...
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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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One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, a young Edwin Hubble settled astronomy’s ‘Great Debate’
(THE CONVERSATION) 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 ...
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Massive 2500 megapixel photomosaic of Andromeda assembled from 600 Hubble photographs
It might be old, bits of it might go offline with increasing regularity ... photographs to this astonishing photomosaic of Andromeda. It was a century ago that Edwin Hubble himself established the ...
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NASA Celebrates Hubble's Discovery of the Expanding Universe
Edwin Hubble is, in essence, the man who destroyed the old universe and found a new one that would make humanity seem like a tiny dot in the vast cosmos.
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100 years ago, Edwin Hubble proved our Milky Way galaxy isn't alone
Circa 1945: Astronomer Dr. Edwin Powell Hubble sitting in a chair at a desk reading a journal. A staff member at Mt. Wilson Observatory, he was the first scientist to offer observational evidence ...
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One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, a young Edwin Hubble settled astronomy’s ‘Great Debate’
(THE CONVERSATION) 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 ...