Edwin Hubble Research Paper

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“We had the sky, up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they were made, or only just happened,” Mark Twain once wrote. You then grow up and you learn about seeing the universe in a different way, through a telescope. The development of the Hubble Telescope, was one of the most important and famous telescopes ever, because of Edwin Hubble and what he discovered, what the Hubble telescope looks like, what the telescope has discovered, and why the telescope was an important discovery. Edwin Powell Hubble was a famous astronomer, that was born on November 20, 1889 in Marshfield, Montana. He went to college at the University of Chicago, and he concentrated on law, getting …show more content…

Edwin Hubble’s greatest discovery came in 1929, when he discovered the universe was expanding, which led to the Big Bang theory, which is a theory that says that the universe began with a huge explosion and started expanding outwards, and has been expanding ever since. That’s how he was named after the telescope. Edwin Hubble kept his career path in astronomy never looking back to his law school days. He lived a life full of discoveries and died September 8, 1953 of cerebral thrombosis, which is a blood clot in the brain. The Hubble Telescope made many discoveries, all because of how it was made, and how it works in the Universe. Hubble was launched on April 24, 1990, but who knew that it would make so many discoveries. It is a basic reflector telescope that had a 2.4 meter mirror, and was …show more content…

It had found far out galaxies that scientist might have never been known if it wasn't for Hubble. It has been able to answer many theories and questions of the universe, like that it was expanding, or how old the universe is. It has also been able to find out how galaxies form, and helped them find out the existence of dark matter. Hubble has shown galaxies in all of these stages, including toddler galaxies, which are hard to find with even a good telescope. This telescope has made so many discoveries that in July, Hubble logged its one millionth observation. "These observations provide us with our best insights yet into the earliest primeval objects yet to be found," adds Rychard Bouwens of the University of Leiden. This means that the Hubble Telescope is still finding huge discoveries all the time, and who knows how advanced it will be in the far future. It could find things that no one even knew