Edwin Powell Hubble (November 20, 1889 – September 28, 1953) was an American astronomer. He played a crucial role in establishing the fields of extragalactic...
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as a public relations boon for astronomy. The Hubble telescope is named after astronomer Edwin Hubble and is one of NASA's Great Observatories. The Space...
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visible light spectrum. The discovery of Hubble's law is attributed to work published by Edwin Hubble in 1929. Hubble's law is considered the first observational...
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In cosmology, a Hubble volume (named for the astronomer Edwin Hubble) or Hubble sphere, Hubble bubble, subluminal sphere, causal sphere and sphere of causality...
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according to their morphologies, the most famous being the Hubble sequence, devised by Edwin Hubble and later expanded by Gérard de Vaucouleurs and Allan Sandage...
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Hubble sequence is a morphological classification scheme for galaxies published by Edwin Hubble in 1926. It is often colloquially known as the Hubble...
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The Edwin Hubble House is a historic house in San Marino, California. Built in 1925, it was the home of astronomer Edwin Hubble (1889–1953) for most of...
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was confirmed in the early 20th century by Vesto Slipher, Edwin Hubble, and others. Edwin Hubble discovered that most nebulae are associated with stars and...
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galaxy types Hubble's law, a statement in physical cosmology Hubble (crater), a lunar crater 2069 Hubble, a main-belt asteroid Edwin Hubble, an astronomer...
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ESA/Hubble. Retrieved 14 January 2015. Hoskin & Dewhirst 1999, pp. 292–296. ESA, Edwin Powell Hubble. PBS, Edwin Hubble 1998. HubbleSite, About Edwin Hubble...
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by Edwin Hubble. He first derived "Hubble's law", now called the Hubble–Lemaître law by the IAU, and published the first estimation of the Hubble constant...
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They are one of the four main classes of galaxy described by Edwin Hubble in his Hubble sequence and 1936 work The Realm of the Nebulae, along with spiral...
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the astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Doust Curtis, observations by Edwin Hubble showed that the Milky Way is just one of many galaxies. In the Babylonian...
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the manner and circumstances of its beginning. Observations made by Edwin Hubble during the 1930s–1950s found that galaxies appeared to be moving away...
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original discoverer. Examples include Hubble's law, which was derived by Georges Lemaître two years before Edwin Hubble; the Pythagorean theorem, which was...
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was then assumed. Einstein's cosmological constant was abandoned after Edwin Hubble confirmed that the universe was expanding. From the 1930s until the late...
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extra-galactic object. Using the new 100-inch Mt. Wilson telescope, Edwin Hubble was able to resolve the outer parts of some spiral nebulae as collections...
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Reflection nebula (redirect from Hubble luminosity law)
Calculations by Ejnar Hertzsprung in 1913 lend credence to that hypothesis. Edwin Hubble further distinguished between the emission and reflection nebulae in...
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Observatory, United States, and named after American astronomer Edwin Hubble. Hubble orbits the Sun in the outer main-belt at a distance of 2.6–3.7 AU...
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classified as a barred spiral galaxy. Edwin Hubble classified spiral galaxies of this type as "SB" (spiral, barred) in his Hubble sequence and arranged them into...
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a measuring stick with vastly greater reach. After Leavitt's death, Edwin Hubble found Cepheids in several nebulae, including the Andromeda Nebula, and...
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relationship between distance to galaxies and their recessional velocity. Edwin Hubble observationally confirmed Lundmark's and Lemaître's findings in 1929...
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Bibcode:1999GReGr..31.1991F. doi:10.1023/A:1026751225741. S2CID 122950995. Hubble, Edwin (15 March 1929). "A Relation Between Distance and Radial Velocity Among...
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American politician Edwin Hubble (1889–1953), American astronomer Edwin Jackson (baseball) (born 1983), American baseball player Edwin R. Keedy (1880–1958)...
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distribution of matter throughout the universe. Further, observations made by Edwin Hubble in 1929 showed that the universe appears to be expanding and is not static...
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This is a list of images released to celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope's anniversaries. They celebrate its "birthday" when it was launched into orbit...
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Spiral galaxy (category Edwin Hubble)
galaxy originally described by Edwin Hubble in his 1936 work The Realm of the Nebulae and, as such, form part of the Hubble sequence. Most spiral galaxies...
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Big Crunch (section Discovery of Hubble's law)
name for the anti-gravity force, was added to the theory of relativity. Edwin Hubble working in the Mount Wilson Observatory took measurements of the distances...
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19, 1891 – June 18, 1972) was an American astronomer. He worked with Edwin Hubble to measure the redshift of nebulas in the early 20th century, providing...
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numeric names: authors list (link) "Edwin Hubble". Biography. Retrieved 2 June 2020. "Biography of Edwin Powell Hubble (1889 - 1953)". asd.gsfc.nasa.gov...
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