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Edwin Hubble's Family Background

Edwin Hubble was an American astronomer born in 1889 in Missouri. He excelled academically and athletically in his youth. Hubble studied at the University of Chicago and Oxford University, eventually becoming a staff member at the Mount Wilson Observatory in 1919. There, using the newly commissioned 100-inch telescope, Hubble discovered that galaxies exist outside the Milky Way, revolutionizing the understanding of the universe. The Hubble Space Telescope, launched in 1990, was named after Edwin Hubble and has provided a wealth of new astronomical images and data.

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Edwin Hubble's Family Background

Edwin Hubble was an American astronomer born in 1889 in Missouri. He excelled academically and athletically in his youth. Hubble studied at the University of Chicago and Oxford University, eventually becoming a staff member at the Mount Wilson Observatory in 1919. There, using the newly commissioned 100-inch telescope, Hubble discovered that galaxies exist outside the Milky Way, revolutionizing the understanding of the universe. The Hubble Space Telescope, launched in 1990, was named after Edwin Hubble and has provided a wealth of new astronomical images and data.

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Jenessa Robison

Astronomy

Edwin Hubble
Edwin Hubble was an American Astronomer born November, 20th, 1889.

He was born in Marshfeild, Missouri. His parents were Virginia and John Hubble.

He had two brothers and six sisters. His father's occupation made them travel a

lot. He was an insurance executive. At eleven years old Edwin moved along with

his family to Wheaton, Illinois for his father's job.

During Edwins childhood he excelled in all subjects academically and

athletically. He played baseball, basketball, football, and track and field. He won

trophies and awards for both things. He broke the Illinois State high jump record.

Edwin Hubble began reading science-fiction novels at a young age. One of his

favorite books was Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

Hubble received a scholarship to attend the University of Chicago in 1906.

While there, he worked as a lab assistant under Robert Millikan, who later won a

Nobel Prize for his work in the field of physics. After graduating in 1910, Hubble

left Chicago and enrolled at the University of Oxford, where he studied law

philosophy. He gradudated from the school three years later, obtaining a

bachelor's degree in jurisprudence. Around the same time, Hubble's father, John

Hubble, died.
During his lifetime, astronomy was considered a field of physics for the

world-renowned Nobel Prize. Hubble labored in vain for a change that would

allow astronomers such as himself to be recognized. Unfortunately, it didn't

happen until 1953, the year Hubble died. Since the Nobel Prize cannot be

awarded posthumously, Hubble was ineligible.

In 1990, 101 years after Hubble's birth, NASA launched the Hubble Space

Telescope into orbit around Earth. The telescope, named for Edwin Hubble, has

provided a wealth of information about the cosmos, transmitting hundreds of

thousands of images. It has allowed for more precise calculations of the age of

the universe, shown galaxies in all stages of the universe, and played a key role

in the discovery of dark energy, the force causing the universe to expand.

Edwin Hubble, for whom the Hubble Space Telescope is named, was one

of the leading astronomers of the twentieth century. His discovery in the 1920s

that countless galaxies exist beyond our own Milky Way galaxy revolutionized

our understanding of the universe and our place within it.

Hubble, a tall and athletic man who excelled at sports and even coached

high school basketball for a short while, started his professional science career
during one of the most exciting eras of astronomy. It was 1919, just a few years

after Albert Einstein published his theory of general relativity, and bold, new

ideas about the universe were fermenting. Hubble was offered a staff position at

the Mount Wilson Observatory, which housed the newly commissioned 100-inch

Hooker telescope, then the largest telescope in the world. Hubble, it seemed,

had the universe placed in his lap.


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