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when you hear the name Hubble you probably think about the telescope but
almost a century ago that name was synonymous with one of the most
preeminent astronomers of the day Edwin Hubble he was certainly one of the
leading observational astronomers of the 20th century if you had to pick sort of
the leading observer Hubble would be in competition for first place
born in November 20th 1889 in marshfield Missouri the focus of the future
astronomers early life is not on the sky but on athletics he kept a brilliant
spring at the northwestern university interscholastic meet on may six 1906
luring the high board five feet eight and a half inches Hubble was held in the
papers for establishing a new state record in the event
Gail christensen author of edwin hubble mariner of the nebulae
double goes on to play center for the university of chicago basketball team
but he is driving towards another goal the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship it's
an honor bestowed to candidates who often become future US presidents and
Chief Justice's seldom have I known a man who seems to me to be better
qualified to meet the conditions imposed by the founder of the road scholarships
then is mr. Hubble 1923 Nobel laureate robert andrews milliken the roads
committee selects Hubble as one of the two awarded from the state of Illinois
he spends the next four years at england's oxford university an
experience that forever transforms him he fell in love with the british way of
doing things their accent they're riding breeches and the works while studying
law at Oxford Edwin confides to his mother
he's going to take a different career paths work to be pleasant must be
towards some great end then so great the dreams of it
anticipation of it overcomes all aversion to labor if only I find some
principle for his sake I could leave everything else and devote my life
Edwin power double for Hubble that life is an astronomy he saw changes that were
going on an astronomy he got interested in it and the interest became pretty
consuming while pursuing his doctorate at the University of Chicago double
lands a job at the world's largest telescope a lot of spectroscopy has been
done with it
my father discovered through Jupiter's satellites don nicholson father set was
one of the astronomers on staff during the early days of Mount Wilson Wilson
was without a question the preeminent Observatory in the world for about the
first half of $YEAR
last century an observatory it was designed not to do that kind of thing
that had been done for centuries before but the so-called new astronomy what we
largely call cosmology today no other Observatory in the world had the
equipment had the staff that Mount Wilson had but Hubble's career at Mount
Wilson has to wait
Edwin's beloved England is entrenched in world war one he was wanted by the
images of the gifted young man he had known at oxford now their corpses lie
scattered along the western from Dale Christian
he joins the Allied effort but never sees combat Edwin returns home and
focuses on interstellar clouds of dust and glowing gases my program in short is
an attempt to find all I possibly can
concerning the nature form and location of the Galactic nebulae and their
relation to the Stars involved
Edwin power double in october of $YEAR 19 23 Hubble turns his attention to the
Andromeda nebula he discovers the first variable star in the nebula that could
be used to calculate its distance from Earth double estimates Andromeda to be
at least a million light-years away
he then applies the same technique to other spiral nebulae and discovers that
our universe extends far beyond our local Milky Way these objects had to be
at a very great distance larger than any distances that have been proposed up to
that time
this was a stunning announcement
what's more he finds that are immense universe is growing even larger this
expansion rate is later coin the Hubble constant this notion of an expanding
universe becomes the foundation of the big bang theory which explains how the
universe began
I think that having the Hubble Space Telescope really seals the fame for
Edwin Hubble and it does keep his name in the forefront and it helps him to be
one of those people that really gets remembered from the 20th century a
century that scene both a man and a telescope named double transform our
view of the cosmos from a small and Static island of stars to a vast and
growing ocean of galaxies from the Space Telescope Science Institute in baltimore
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