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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
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.
1 January 1925 – Astronomer Edwin Hubble formally presents his discovery of galaxies outside the Milky Way at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society; 1 January 1952 – The Kyiv Planetarium opens in Kyiv, Ukraine
November 23 – Edwin Hubble announces his discovery that Andromeda, previously believed to be a nebula, is actually another galaxy, and that the Milky Way is only one of many such galaxies in the universe. [1] The Einstein Tower near Potsdam, Germany, designed by Erich Mendelsohn, becomes operational as an astrophysical observatory.
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.
The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey, or GOODS, is an astronomical survey combining deep observations from three of NASA's Great Observatories: the Hubble Space Telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope, and the Chandra X-ray Observatory, along with data from other space-based telescopes, such as XMM Newton, and some of the world's most powerful ground-based telescopes.
The Extended Groth Strip [1] is an image of a small region between the constellations of Ursa Major and Boötes, based on the results of a series of observations by the Hubble Space Telescope. It covers an area 70 arcminutes across and 10 arcminutes wide, which correlates to a patch of sky roughly the width of a finger stretched at arm's length.