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Edwin Hubble was born in Marshfield Missouri in 1889. ... In Hubble’s time, the center of obersevational work on the new astrophysics, and later on what we know as cosmology was the Mount Wilson observatory. ... Hubble had continuing access to both the 60 inch and the 100 inch hooker reflectors. ... In the early 1920s Hubble played a key role in establishing just what galaxies are. ... In the 1924s Hubble measured the distant to the Andromeda nebula, a faint patch of light with about the same apparent diameter as the moon, and showed it was about a hundred thousand times as far away as the nearest stars Hubble was able to measure the distances to only a handful to other galaxies, but he realized that as a brightness as an indication of their distance. ... The observational data available to Hubble by 1929 was sketchy, but whether guided by inspired instinct or outrageous good fortune, he correctly divined a straight line fit between the data points showing the red shift was proportional to the distance. |
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