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Edwin Powell Hubble
November 20, 1889 - September 28, 1953
Nationality: American
Category: Scientist
Subcategory: American Scientist

The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

   

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

   

We find them smaller and fainter, in constantly increasing numbers, and we know that we are reaching into space, farther and farther, until, with the faintest nebulae that can be detected with the greatest telescopes, we arrive at the frontier of the known universe.

   

The great spirals... apparently lie outside our stellar system.

   

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