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Edwin Powell Hubble
Edwin Powell Hubble

Edwin Powell Hubble was an American astronomer known for his significant contributions to observational cosmology and extragalactic astronomy. His discovery in 1929 that the universe is expanding was a major breakthrough, leading to the acceptance of the Big Bang theory. Hubble's work also provided evidence for the existence of galaxies beyond the Milky Way and helped establish Hubble's Law. more

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“That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitation, this is the fact which Nature moans over, and deprecates beseechingly. Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals! is the song she sings through warbling birds, and whispering pines, and roaring waves, and screeching winds.”