As a result, the science of cosmology exploded almost overnight. Hubble's contemporary, the distinguished Harvard astronomer Harlow Shapley, upon Hubble notifying him of the discovery, was devastated.

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the American ...

Edwin Powell Hubble is renowned for determining that there are other galaxies in the Universe beyond the Milky Way, and for observing that the universe is expanding at a constant rate. Hubble was ...

These discoveries, beginning with George Ellery Hale's visionary work and continuing through researchers like Edwin Hubble, have shaped our evolving comprehension of the universe. In 1904 George ...