Hooker Telescope Archive

Left: Studio Portrait of Edwin Powell Hubble. Photograph (1931) by photographer Johan Hagemeyer (1884-1962)- http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/129 - Public Domain; Right: The 100-inch (2.5 m) Hooker telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory that Hubble used to measure galaxy distances and a value for the rate of expansion of the universe. Andrew Dunn - http://www.andrewdunnphoto.com/ - CC BY-SA 2.0

On This Day In History: American Astronomer Edwin Hubble Announced Existence Of Other Galaxies – On Dec 30, 1924

AncientPages.com | December 30, 2016

AncientPages.com - On December 30, 1924, American astronomer Edwin Hubble announced that there are other galaxies in the cosmos. Our home galaxy Milky Way is not alone; it has

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