The Expansion of the Universe

1929 · Edwin Hubble

Year: 1929

Description

Distance plotted against redshift gave a straight line: everything is receding, faster the further away it is. Lemaître had derived it from theory two years earlier and been ignored.

Discoverer

Edwin Hubble

Observatory

Mount Wilson Observatory

Referenced by

observatory

Mount Wilson Observatory

researcher

Edwin Hubble

Open on the Cosmic Exploration shelf — the interactive card, the filters, and everything alongside it.

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