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December 31, 2006

Edwin Hubble Announces Existence of Other Galaxies

Edwin Hubble worked as a basketball coach and teacher, served in World War I, and studied law before focusing his energies on astronomy. On December 30, 1924, he made a groundbreaking announcement, declaring that fuzzy "nebulae" seen earlier with less powerful telescopes were not part of our galaxy, but were actually galaxies, themselves. With the findings now known as Hubble's law, he was also the first to provide evidence to support what theory about the universe?
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