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Dr Edwin Powell Hubble, who lends his name to the iconic Hubble Space Telescope, was one of the leading astronomers of the ...
Edwin Hubble joined the Mount Wilson Observatory team in California in 1919, ... I don't think I've ever seen a picture of Hubble without a pipe in his mouth!
Edwin Hubble’s photo; Martellus’ world map; ... And the pipes would be taken apart, put on deck.-The work was led by legendary geologists, Marie Tharp and Bruce Heezen, ...
Edwin Hubble is the namesake for NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, which has spent decades observing faraway galaxies. NASA via AP. NASA named its flagship space observatory after Hubble, ...
Astronomer Dr. Edwin Powell Hubble (1889 - 1953) sitting in a chair at a desk reading a journal. Image: New York Times Co./Getty Images This article was originally featured on The Conversation .
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Nearly a century ago, Edwin Hubble discovered that the universe is getting larger. Modern measurements of how fast it is expanding ...