Edwin Hubble, famous astronomer and namesake of the Hubble Space Telescope, was also a renowned basketball player and coach, and is in the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame. hoopshall.com/inductees/eโ€ฆ
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โ€Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure 'Science'โ€. โ€” Edwin Powell Hubble
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This Day in Victorian History Edwin Hubble, American astronomer (discoverer of galaxies, red shift), born in Marshfield, Missouri (1889) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwโ€ฆ
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Did Lovecraft know about Edwin Hubble's work?

Whenever I read one of Lovecraft's later stories, I can't help but notice that he seems to be writing under the impression that the universe is just the Milky Way; I can't remember any mentions of other galaxies. It was during Lovecraft's lifetime that it was proven that the universe was much larger than had been previously thought. (The "Great Debate" happened in 1920, Hubble later proved that there were other galaxies in 1924.) Lovecraft was apparently a gifted amateur astronomer, so it would be weird if he didn't know that. It'd also be hilarious since he was also horribly wrong on the age of the universe (he liked the word vigintillions, equivalent in his time to 10^20. In reality the universe is only bilions of years old. Lovecraft's universe was almost as old as that of Hindu mythology, lol). Which is also weird, apparently Lovecraft was good at chemistry, so he should of known of the concept of entropy, and I think that 10^20 years is enough time for a universe the size of the Milky Way to reach heat death....

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โ€œThe history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.โ€ .....Edwin Powell Hubble.
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Edwin Hubble poses inside the 200-inch Palomar telescope a few years before his death in 1953
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TIL There was no funeral for Edwin Hubble and no body knows where he has been buried. We can only find his name among the stars en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwโ€ฆ
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Edwin Hubble portrait
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What was the reaction of the general public in 1924 when Edwin Hubble announced that the spiral nebula Andromeda was actually another galaxy, and that our own galaxy was just one of many? This seems like it would have a profound effect on the world, but did anyone care?
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TIL until 1929, less than 100 years ago, man didn't know there were other galaxies outside of the Milky Way. Edwin Hubble and his "computer", a woman named Henrietta Leavitt calculated stars called cepheids could accurately measure long distances, proving the Andromeda "nebula" was a separate galaxy vox.com/2016/11/20/136770โ€ฆ
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Andromeda Galaxy in Edwin Hubble's 1923 VAR Plate and the shot I took yesterday with my camera, 97 years later
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TIL that Einstein and his wife once visited the enormous Mount Wilson Observatory with astronomer Edwin Hubble. When told that Hubble's telescopes were revealing the ultimate shape of the universe, Einstein's wife nonchalantly responded, "Well, my husband does that on the back of an old envelope." ngm.nationalgeographic.coโ€ฆ
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95 years ago this month, Edwin Hubble presented his evidence that the Andromeda Nebula was actually another galaxy outside the known universe of the Milky Way. Fast forward to present day, and we can photograph the astonishing details within using amateur gear. [OC]
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TIL that Edwin Hubble broke the state record in the high jump, and went on to play basketball for the University of Chicago. He won a Rhodes scholarship and studied law at Oxford. He earned a Ph.D. in astronomy, but practiced law in Kentucky. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwโ€ฆ
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Today in 1924 (less than 100 years ago) Edwin Hubble announced to the world the existence of other galaxies than the Milky Way. In other words, it's still less than 100 years that we know we live in a universe populated by other galaxies other than the Milky Way
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Which one is the best for Kalen Sixth Serenade? Rasputin or Edwin Hubble plz help me <3 reddit.com/gallery/jojo9z
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Itโ€™s Edwin Hubbleโ€™s birthday today....

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY LITTLE LITTLE ASTRONOMER~!!!

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TDIH: November 23, 1924, Edwin Hubble's discover that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way. Photo: The Andromeda Galaxy, a spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda.
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TIL that Edwin Hubble, who discovered that the universe is far larger than we thought and for whom the famous telescope is named, was also a 3x National Champion at the University Chicago. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/190โ€ฆ
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Yerkes Observatory will cease operations on October 1, 2018. The historic observatory, which captured the first image of Pluto in 1909, was also where Edwin Hubble carried out his doctoral research. astronomy.com/news/2018/0โ€ฆ
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Edwin Hubble with James Jeans at the 100-inch telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory [5145x4165]
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Yerkes Observatory will cease operations on October 1, 2018. The historic observatory, which captured the first image of Pluto in 1909, was also where Edwin Hubble carried out his doctoral research. astronomy.com/news/2018/0โ€ฆ
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It took 13 years to grind down the lens for the Mt. Palomar Observatory. It was the largest in the world for 45 years and Edwin Hubble was the first astronomer to use it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palโ€ฆ
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Edwin Hubble Discovers the Universe apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap2004โ€ฆ
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My poor dead ass tried my best the last few days. And now I just have enough matz to craft full Edwin Hubble set or pray for the mid Nohime in Exchange shop because I accept the fact that I'd never got the full Welt set anytime soon for the next few years.
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Edwin Hubble at the controls of the 100-inch telescope at Mount Wilson, circa 1922. [768 x 837]
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Whatโ€™s the watch Edwin Hubble is wearing in this photo?
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Edwin Hubble at the controls of the 100-inch Hooker Telescope at Mount Wilson (~1922). Here he was to discover that the Universe was not entirely contained within the Milky Way (as was thought at the time), but rather other galaxies also existed.
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100 years ago: Edwin Hubble Discovers the Universe apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap2004โ€ฆ
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Yerkes Observatory will cease operations on October 1, 2018. The historic observatory, which captured the first image of Pluto in 1909, was also where Edwin Hubble carried out his doctoral research. astronomy.com/news/2018/0โ€ฆ
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Edwin Hubble Discovers the Universe apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap2004โ€ฆ
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Edwin Hubble [colorized]
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A young Edwin Hubble at Mount Wilson's 100-inch telescope circa 1922, ready to make history.
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Edwin Hubble Vs. Galileo Galilei

Famous Astronomer Rap battle.

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Edwin Hubble Discovers the Universe apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap2004โ€ฆ
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Stigler's law states that no scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer. Examples include Hubble's law which was derived by Georges Lemaรฎtre two years before Edwin Hubble and the Pythagorean theorem which was known to Babylonian mathematicians before Pythagoras en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiโ€ฆ
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Edwin Hubble is adorable! imgur.com/a/X4epQeN
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Where is astronomer Edwin Hubble's body?

I'm reading a book in which the author makes a brief, one-line mention that upon his death in 1953, Edwin Hubble's wife did not hold a funeral and no one knows where his body wound up. Intrigued, I looked into it. There are some crackpot theories that his body was somehow "incorporated" into the telescope named after him, and this:

>He died of a cerebral thrombosis on September 28, 1953, in San Marino, California. His wife, Grace, did not have a funeral for him and never revealed what was done with his bodyโ€”it was apparently Hubble's wish to have no funeral service and be buried in an unmarked grave, or that he wanted to be cremated. As of now, the whereabouts of his remains are unknown.

I guess it's not super mysterious, but still a curiosity. Any thoughts?

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Edwin Hubbleโ€™s โ€œVAR!โ€ plate of Andromeda which showed us the distance to Andromeda Galaxy also lives at Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena!
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Oct. 6th, 1923: Edwin Hubble's photo discovery that what he had assumed was a nova in the Andromeda galaxy was in fact a Cepheid variable star. This allowed the distance to Andromeda to be more accurately measured, and proved that it was a distant galaxy, not a nearby nebula [710 x 893]
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Astronomer here! Was lucky enough to see Edwin Hubbleโ€™s original glass emulsion plates he took while finding the distance to the Andromeda Galaxy. You can see his notes written on the plate, and his fingerprint where he smudged the emulsion
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A young Edwin Hubble at Mount Wilson's 100-inch telescope circa 1922, ready to make history.
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