Edwin Hubble

Edwin Powell Hubble (November 20, 1889 – September 28, 1953) was an American astronomer. Hubble's findings changed the scientific view of the universe...

starlight before it reaches Earth. Named after the astronomer Edwin Hubble, the Hubble Space Telescope can observe 24 hours a day. The main mirror is...

suggested a value for the rate of expansion, now called the Hubble constant. Two years later Edwin Hubble confirmed the existence of that law and got a more accurate...

Some people think it was Edwin Hubble, but that is not correct. Lemaître was also the first to make the Hubble's law and the Hubble constant. Lemaître also...

They are one of the three main types of galaxy originally described by Edwin Hubble in 1936. The others are spiral and lenticular galaxies. Elliptical galaxies...

cepheid variables were used to find out how far away the galaxy was. Edwin Hubble found 11 cepheid variable stars, and used them to find the distance to...

Later, with astrophotography and spectroscopy, astronomers (for example Edwin Hubble) showed that the Milky Way was only one of many galaxies. Modern cosmology...

according to their morphologies, the most famous being the Hubble sequence, figured out by Edwin Hubble and later expanded by Gérard de Vaucouleurs and Allan...

called the Local Supercluster). The term "Local Group" was introduced by Edwin Hubble in 1936. He describes it as "a typical small group of nebulae which is...

000 light years. After Leavitt's death, Edwin Hubble established that the universe is expanding (see Hubble's law). He used Leavitt's period-luminosity...

thought to be nebulae. The spiral nebula as a type was first described by Edwin Hubble in his 1936 work The Realm of the Nebulae. They are now listed as galaxies...

constellation Monoceros. under the direction of American astronomer Edwin Hubble. The image was published in many magazines. The Large Binocular Telescope...

Our home, the Milky Way, is one of these galaxies and has its own bar. Edwin Hubble made a list of all the galaxies he could find and put them into groups...

However, in the 1920s, Georges Lemaître and Edwin Hubble determined that the universe was expanding (see Hubble's law). Although the estimates made using...

scholar; editor of Groves-Wheeler Hebrew morphology database Edwin P. Hubble, of Hubble Space Telescope fame (born in Marshfield) Virginia E. Johnson...

irregular galaxy in the constellation Cassiopeia. It was discovered in 1887. Edwin Hubble suspected it might belong to the Local Group of galaxies, but this was...

Consort of George V of the United Kingdom (b. 1866) September 28 - Edwin Hubble, American astronomer (b. 1891) September 29 – Ernst Reuter, German politician...

might actually be galaxies themselves.[source?] Thus, he anticipated Edwin Hubble's major discovery 100 years in advance. Wikiquote has a collection of...

other galaxies was settled by Edwin Hubble, who identified the Andromeda nebula as a different galaxy. It was also Hubble who proved that the universe...

Andromeda's distance is 2.54 million light years. In the 1920s astronomer Edwin Hubble proved that Andromeda was a galaxy, and not a gas cloud in the Milky...