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He propeses that mass warps time and space, therefore large masses can bend light.
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This telescope was the first major telescope to observe space in great detail. It was able to mesaure the distance and velocity of galaxies. Crucial in developement of the theory.
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He found that einstein only made sence if the universe was moving, not static as einstein had thought.
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Named after Edwin Hubble, which describes the galaxies as moving away proportional to the distance away they are. Further adds to the idea that the universe atrted in one spot.
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A belgium astronomer had an idea that at some point all pices of matter were concentrated in one atom a sort of cosmic egg. Eventually blowing up starting the universe.
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With his student Ralph Alpher they published "The Orgin of the chemical elements" in which they measured levels of hydrogen and helium in the universe largely explained by reactions that occured in the big bang.
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He disagreed with the "Big Bang Theory" which he named it. he believed the universe is expanding, but thought the universe was eternal.
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A radio tower was recieving excess noise seeming to come from radiation. They decided the noise was our universe exploding.
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Made a device designed to recreate something that would have been there for a short period of time during the big bang.
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An infrared ballon spectrometer was used for three flights. To increase its sensitivity it was cooled ot one degree above absolute zero using helium. The observatiopns provide the most widely accepted suppport for the big bang theory until the launch of the cobe satalite.
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Congress approves the funding for the hubble telescope, allowing construction to start.
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This satalite was launched to investigate the comic microwave backround radiation and provide measurements to help our understanding of the cosmos.
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Two independent projects, the Supernova Cosmology Project and the High-Z Supernova Search Team, both measured the speed of the expansion using a far away super nova. They found that the expansion was accelerating
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The hubble telescope is finally launched after decades of imagining and construction. It is able to observe the galaxy in great detail.
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WMAP scientists discover the universe is 13.7 billion years old.
