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Richard Hosking,
Paranormal Investigator
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It was not until the 1920's that Edwin Hubble, using a newly constructed powerful telescope, viewed a hazy object in the constellation Andromeda and resolved it into countless points of light -- they were stars.
Astronomer Edwin Hubble was studying an object in the autumn constellation Andromeda known as the Andromeda Nebula.
Edwin Powell Hubble (1889-1953), an American astronomer and the founder of extragalactic astronomy, was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford and began his career as a lawyer.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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In 1925, an American astronomer by the name of Edwin Hubble, provided observational evidence that all galaxies are receding from one another, which implies that the universe is expanding.
Edwin Hubble uses this instrument to determine the distances and velocities of neighboring galaxies, demonstrating that they are separate "island universes" and not small nebulae contained within the Milky Way, as many astronomers had previously thought.
In 1929 Edwin Hubble's measurements of the red-shift in the optical spectra of light from distant galaxies, which was taken to indicate a universal recessional motion of the light sources in the line of sight, provided a dramatic verification of the Friedman-Lemaitre model.
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