News tagged with edwin hubble
Mysterious red galaxies
(PhysOrg.com) -- Perhaps the most astonishing and revolutionary discovery in cosmology was Edwin Hubble's observation that galaxies are moving away from us with velocities that are proportional to their distances. ...
Dec 12, 2011 |
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Was the real discovery of the expanding universe lost in translation?
(PhysOrg.com) -- The greatest astronomical discovery of the 20th century may have been credited to the wrong person. But it turns out to have been nobody's fault except for that of the actual original discoverer ...
Nov 09, 2011 |
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Web abuzz with claims that Hubble sought to censor Lemaitre's paper
(PhysOrg.com) -- In one of those odd scientific debates where people who ought to know better, speak up, and in this case, print articles on arXiv, making claims about personal issues rather than science, buzz h ...
Jul 13, 2011 |
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Hubble views the star that changed the universe
(PhysOrg.com) -- Though the universe is filled with billions upon billions of stars, the discovery of a single variable star in 1923 altered the course of modern astronomy. And, at least one famous astronomer ...
May 23, 2011 |
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Portman's role in 'Thor' highlights rise of women in astronomy
Natalie Portman plays an astrophysicist in the recently released movie "Thor," but she is hardly the first Hollywood actress in a leading role as an astronomer.
May 18, 2011 |
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Refined Hubble Constant narrows explanations for dark energy
Whatever dark energy is, explanations for it have less wiggle room following a Hubble Space Telescope observation that has refined the measurement of the universe's present expansion rate to a precision where ...
May 07, 2009 |
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