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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 .
1924 Edwin P. Hubble: Cepheids in Spiral Nebulae L. R. Cleveland: For two papers on the symbiosis between termites and their intestinal protozoa: 1923 Leonard Eugene Dickson: On the Theory of Numbers and Generalized Quaternions
10 February 2002 – Solar Orbiter is launched to perform detailed measurements of the inner heliosphere and nascent solar wind, and perform close observations of the polar regions of the Sun 15 February 1845 – The Leviathan of Parsonstown , the world's largest telescope from 1845 to 1917, sees first light
It was used by Edwin Hubble to make observations with which he produced two fundamental results which changed the scientific view of the Universe. Using observations he made in 1922–1923, Hubble was able to prove that the Universe extends beyond the Milky Way galaxy, and that several nebulae were millions of light-years away.
Later in the 1920s, Edwin Hubble showed that Andromeda was far outside the Milky Way by measuring Cepheid variable stars, proving that Curtis was correct. [6] It is now known that the Milky Way is only one of as many as an estimated 200 billion (2 × 10 11) [7] to 2 trillion (2 × 10 12) or more galaxies in the observable Universe.
Hubble eXtreme Deep Field: 2012: 2.3′x3′ Hubble Ultra-Deep Field (UV/VIS/NIR) 2014: Hubble Frontier Fields MACS J0416.1-2403 [10] 2015: Hubble Frontier Fields Abell 2744 [11] 2015: Hubble Frontier Fields MACS J0717.5+3745: 2015: Hubble Frontier Fields MACS J1149.5+2223 [12] 2015: Hubble Frontier Fields Abell S1063 [13] 2016: Hubble Frontier ...
The team nicknamed the star system Mothra due to its extreme magnification and brightness. Surprisingly, Mothra has appeared before, detected in Hubble observations nine years ago.
1924: Edwin Hubble: the discovery that the Milky Way is just one of many galaxies 1925: Erwin Schrödinger : Schrödinger equation ( Quantum mechanics ) 1925: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin : Discovery of the composition of the Sun and that hydrogen is the most abundant element in the Universe