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The Nine Planets

NC State Astronomy


Q: Who is that guy looking through the telescope?
    That is Edwin Hubble, who in 1929 discovered that galaxies are all moving away from us with a speed propotional to their distance from us. This observation led to the idea that the Universe is expanding. NASA's space telescope was named after Hubble.