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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 .
The Edwin Hubble House is located in a residential area of western San Marino, on the east side of Woodstock Road near its cul-de-sac end. It is a two-story Mission Revival house, designed by Los Angeles architect Joseph Kucera and completed in 1925.
Edwin Powell Hubble: United States: 1889: 1953: Hubble proved that many objects previously thought to be clouds of dust and gas and classified as "nebulae" were actually galaxies beyond the Milky Way. He provided evidence for Hubble–Lemaître law, the fact that the universe is ever expanding. William Huggins: United Kingdom: 1824: 1910 ...
The 200-inch (510 cm) telescope saw first light on January 26, 1949, at 10:06 pm PST [5] [6] under the direction of American astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble, targeting NGC 2261, an object also known as Hubble's Variable Nebula. [7] [8]
The famous 5.08-metre (200 in) Hale Telescope of Palomar Observatory saw first light on 26 January 1949, targeting NGC 2261 [2] under the direction of American astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble. The image was published in many magazines and is available on Caltech Archives. [citation needed]
The American astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble was the first astronomer to use the telescope. The 200-inch telescope was the largest telescope in the world from 1949 until 1975, when the Russian BTA-6 telescope saw first light.
Edwin Powell Hubble – United States (1889–1953) Russell Alan Hulse – United States (born 1950) Nobel laureate; Friedrich Hund – Germany (1896–1997) Tahir Hussain – Pakistan (1923–2010) Andrew D. Huxley – U.K. (born 1966) Christiaan Huygens – Netherlands (1629–1695)
Comet Hubble, formally designated C/1937 P1, is the first and only comet discovered by astronomer Edwin Hubble. The comet was already on its outbound flight when it was first spotted in August 1937 as a magnitude 13.5 object in the constellation Sagittarius. [1] [5] It is the fourth comet discovered in 1937. [6]