"The Exploration of Space"
Magazine article
By: Edwin P. Hubble
Date: May 1929
Source: Hubble, Edwin P. "The Exploration of Space." Harper's Magazine, May 1929, 732–733.
About the Author: Edwin Powell Hubble (1889–1953) was born in Kentucky. He majored in mathematics and astronomy at the University of Chicago and won a Rhodes Scholarship in 1910 to study law at Oxford University. He opened a law office in Kentucky in 1913, but the law bored Hubble, so he returned to the University of Chicago for a Ph.D. in astrophysics in 1917. Two years later he became an astronomer at Mount Wilson Observatory in California, where he spent most of his career. Hubble provided the first evidence that the universe is expanding, laying the foundation for the Big Bang theory. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, launched in 1990, was named in his honor.
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