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  2. Edwin Hubble - Wikipedia

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    Edwin Powell Hubble (November 20, 1889 – September 28, 1953) [1] was an American astronomer. ... acquiesced to his father's request to study law, first at the ...

  3. Hubble Space Telescope - Wikipedia

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    Hubble was launched in 1990, but its main mirror had been ground incorrectly, resulting in spherical aberration that compromised the telescope's capabilities. The optics were corrected to their intended quality by a servicing mission in 1993. Hubble is the only telescope designed to be maintained in space by astronauts.

  4. Observational cosmology - Wikipedia

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    Two years later, Hubble showed that the relation between the distances and velocities was a positive correlation and had a slope of about 500 km/s/Mpc. [10] This correlation would come to be known as Hubble's law and would serve as the observational foundation for the expanding universe theories on which cosmology is still based.

  5. History of the Big Bang theory - Wikipedia

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    In 1929, Hubble and Milton Humason formulated the empirical Redshift Distance Law of galaxies, nowadays known as Hubble's law, which, once the Redshift is interpreted as a measure of recession speed, is consistent with the solutions of Einstein's General Relativity Equations for a homogeneous, isotropic expanding universe. The law states that ...

  6. Astronomy - Wikipedia

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    The study of objects outside our galaxy is a branch of astronomy concerned with the formation and evolution of galaxies, their morphology (description) and classification, the observation of active galaxies, and at a larger scale, the groups and clusters of galaxies.

  7. Timeline of knowledge about galaxies, clusters of galaxies ...

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    1995 – Hubble Deep Field survey of galaxies in field 144 arc seconds across. 1998 – The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey maps the large-scale structure in a section of the Universe close to the Milky Way. 1998 – The Hubble Deep Field South is compiled. 1998 – Discovery of accelerating universe. [13]

  8. In this zoomed-in detail of the Hubble image of Abell 370, the host galaxy where the 44 stars were discovered appears several times: in a normal image (left), and a distorted image appearing as a ...

  9. Space telescope - Wikipedia

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    She was a program scientist that worked to convince NASA, Congress, and others that Hubble was "very well worth doing". [ 5 ] The first operational space telescopes were the American Orbiting Astronomical Observatory , OAO-2 launched in 1968, and the Soviet Orion 1 ultraviolet telescope aboard space station Salyut 1 in 1971.