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    Edwin Hubble was an American astronomer who played a crucial role in establishing the fields of extragalactic astronomy and observational cosmology. Hubble discovered that many objects previously thought to be nebulae were actually galaxies beyond the Milky Way. He also provided evidence of Hubble's law, which states that the recessional velocity of a galaxy increases with its distance from Earth, implying that the universe is expanding.

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    Edwin Hubble was an American astronomer who played a crucial role in establishing the fields of extragalactic astronomy and observational cosmology. Hubble discovered that many objects previously thought to be nebulae were actually galaxies beyond the Milky Way. He also provided evidence of Hubble's law, which states that the recessional velocity of a galaxy increases with its distance from Earth, implying that the universe is expanding.

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    Edwin Hubble was an American astronomer who played a crucial role in establishing the fields of extragalactic astronomy and observational cosmology. Hubble discovered that many objects previously thought to be nebulae were actually galaxies beyond the Milky Way. He also provided evidence of Hubble's law, which states that the recessional velocity of a galaxy increases with its distance from Earth, implying that the universe is expanding.

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    Edwin Powell Hubble (November 20, 1889 – September 28, 1953)[1] was an American astronomer.

    He played a crucial role in establishing the fields of extragalactic astronomy and observational
    cosmology and is regarded as one of the most important astronomers of all time.[2][3]
    Hubble discovered that many objects previously thought to be clouds of dust and gas and classified
    as "nebulae" were actually galaxies beyond the Milky Way.[4] He used the strong direct relationship
    between a classical Cepheid variable's luminosity and pulsation period[5][6] (discovered in 1908
    by Henrietta Swan Leavitt[7]) for scaling galactic and extragalactic distances.[8][9]
    Hubble provided evidence that the recessional velocity of a galaxy increases with its distance from
    the earth, a property now known as "Hubble's law", despite the fact that it had been both proposed
    and demonstrated observationally two years earlier by Georges Lemaître.[10] Hubble's Law implies
    that the universe is expanding.[11] A decade before, the American astronomer Vesto Slipher had
    provided the first evidence that the light from many of these nebulae was strongly red-shifted,
    indicative of high recession velocities.[12][13]
    Hubble's name is most widely recognized for the Hubble Space Telescope which was named in his
    honor, with a model prominently displayed in his hometown of Marshfield, Missouri.

    The most popular theory of our universe's origin centers on a cosmic cataclysm
    unmatched in all of history—the big bang. This theory was born of the observation that
    other galaxies are moving away from our own at great speed, in all directions, as if they
    had all been propelled by an ancient explosive force.

    What Is the Big Bang Theory?

    Before the big bang, scientists believe the entire vastness of the observable universe,
    including all of its matter and radiation, was compressed into a hot, dense mass just a
    few millimeters across. This nearly incomprehensible state is theorized to have existed
    for just a fraction of the first second of time.

    Origins of the Theory

    A Belgian priest named Georges Lemaître first suggested the big bang
    theory in the 1920s when he theorized that the universe began from a
    single primordial atom. The idea subsequently received major boosts by
    Edwin Hubble's observations that galaxies are speeding away from us in
    all directions, and from the discovery of cosmic microwave radiation by
    Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson.

    The glow of cosmic microwave background radiation, which is found


    throughout the universe, is thought to be a tangible remnant of leftover
    light from the big bang. The radiation is akin to that used to transmit
    TV signals via antennas. But it is the oldest radiation known and may
    hold many secrets about the universe's earliest moments.

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