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Edwin Hubble

Edwin Hubble
American astronomer Edwin Hubble was the first person to identify galaxies beyond our own Milky Way. He also observed that these galaxies are moving away from each other, an indication that the universe is expanding.
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Redshift; Dark Energy; Hubble, Edwin Powell
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