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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 ...
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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 ... The more distant the star is, the fainter it appears. Hubble worked hard, taking images of spiral ...