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    mountains clockwise from the southeast are Mount Liard, Mount Stewart, Mount Durnford, Mount Field, Mount Hubble. 80°58′S 158°51′E / 80.967°S 158.850°E...
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    Hubble's law, also known as the Hubble–Lemaître law, is the observation in physical cosmology that galaxies are moving away from Earth at speeds proportional...
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    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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    The Hubble Space Telescope (often referred to as HST or Hubble) is a space telescope that was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990 and remains in operation...
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    The Mount Wilson Observatory (MWO) is an astronomical observatory in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The MWO is located on Mount Wilson...
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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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    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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    Pillars of Creation (category Hubble Space Telescope images)
    Pillars of Creation is a photograph taken by the Hubble Space Telescope of elephant trunks of interstellar gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula, in the Serpens...
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    of the Hubble Space Telescope. His discoveries made while working at the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and the Mount Wilson...
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  • 2069 Hubble, provisional designation 1955 FT, is a carbonaceous asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 40 kilometers in diameter...
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    Mount Wilson is a peak in the San Gabriel Mountains, located within the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument and Angeles National Forest in Los Angeles...
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  • the Churchill Mountains of Antarctica. It flows northwest between Mount Hubble and Mount Richter to enter Starshot Glacier. The glacier was named by the...
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    during the earliest moments. Crucially, these models are compatible with the Hubble–Lemaître law—the observation that the farther away a galaxy is, the faster...
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    69..103H. doi:10.1086/143167. Hubble, Edwin P. (1926). "No. 324. Extra-galactic nebulae". Contributions from the Mount Wilson Observatory. 324. Carnegie...
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    spectrograph of the Mount Wilson Solar Observatory". Astrophys. J. 35: 163–182. Bibcode:1912ApJ....35..163A. doi:10.1086/141924. "Hubble finds birth certificate...
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  • graduate student assistant to cosmologist Edwin Hubble. He continued Hubble's research program after Hubble died in 1953. In 1952 Baade surprised his fellow...
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    anti-gravity force, was added to the theory of relativity. Edwin Hubble working in the Mount Wilson Observatory took measurements of the distances of galaxies...
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    compromising the smoothness of the mechanism. Two servicing missions to the Hubble Space Telescope have replaced a reaction wheel. In February 1997, the Second...
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    shift. The controversy was conclusively settled by Edwin Hubble in the early 1920s using the Mount Wilson observatory 2.5 m (100 in) Hooker telescope. With...
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  • 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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    galaxies. Hubble also demonstrated that the redshift of other galaxies is approximately proportional to their distance from Earth (Hubble's law). This...
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    measure of a telescope's performance. Space-based telescopes, such as the Hubble Space Telescope, take advantage of being above the Earth's atmosphere to...
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    of the known universe, doubling the previous calculation made by Edwin Hubble in 1929. He announced this finding to considerable astonishment at the 1952...
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    center of Abell 1185 with Hubble NGC 3561, which is part of this galaxy cluster, with the Schulman 0.8m Telescope on the Mount Lemmon Observatory "ACO 1185"...
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    A Dobsonian telescope is an altazimuth-mounted Newtonian telescope design popularized by John Dobson in 1965 and credited with vastly increasing the size...
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    Sloan Digital Sky Survey HST image of M65 M65 by Hubble Space Telescope M65 as imaged from the Mount Lemmon Observatory Messier 65 by 2MASS List of Messier...
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    around the star rather than a more fundamental change. A study using the Hubble Space Telescope suggests that occluding dust was created by a surface mass...
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    Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement (category Hubble Space Telescope instruments)
    built by NASA. It was created to correct the spherical aberration of the Hubble Space Telescope's primary mirror, which incorrectly focused light upon the...
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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 consist...
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    10,700-foot (3,300 m) Mount Graham, in the Pinaleno Mountains of southeastern Arizona, United States. It is a part of the Mount Graham International Observatory...
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