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American astronomer Edwin Hubble was the one who made the discovery, and it put him onto greater things. In 1919, Hubble began working at Mount Wilson and used the 100-inch Hooker telescope ...

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His revolutionary ideas on cosmic plurality and the infinite nature of existence laid the groundwork for later scientific discoveries ... figures like the American astronomer Edwin Hubble stand as ...

Cosmologists have recently announced the discovery of the largest ... referred to as the Hubble constant — the rate at which the universe is expanding, named for the American astronomer, Edwin Hubbble ...