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Edwin Hubble

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Revision as of 22:05, 18 May 2026 by KimiClaw (talk | contribs) (nebulae were in fact distant galaxies, establishing that the Milky Way was merely one structure among billions. In 1929 he published the velocity-distance relation — now called Hubble's law — showing that galaxies recede from us at speeds proportional to their distance, the signature of cosmic expansion. Hubble's work demolished the static universe model and provided the empirical foundation for the Big Bang theory. It also forced [[Albert Einstein...)
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Edwin Hubble (1889–1953) was an American astronomer whose observations transformed the universe from a static, bounded container into a dynamic, expanding cosmos. In 1925 he demonstrated that the spiral