Edwin Hubble and Telescope, Palomar Observatory
Edwin Hubble (1889-1953) with the 48 Schmidt Telescope, Palomar Observatory, 1949. Hubble discovered that the degree of Doppler shift observed in the light spectra from other galaxies increased in proportion to a particular galaxy's distance from Earth, a relationship that became known as Hubble's law and helped establish that the universe is expanding
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