Edwin Hubble

By elizabeth.munoz-tor

  • Birth of Edwin Hubble

    Marshfield, Missouri
  • Period: to

    Studies Astronomy at Yerkes Observatory

    earns a doctorate from UIC

  • Joins the Staff at the Mount WIlson Observatory

  • Spotted A Cepheid Variable Star

    in what was known as the Andromeda Nebula

  • Proved That There Are Galaxies Outside Our Own

    in a paper called "Cepheids in Spiral Nebula

  • Discovered Almost Every Galaxy He Observed Appeared To Be Moving Away From The Earth

  • Hubble's Law

    States that the greater the distance of a galaxy from ours, the faster it recedes. It was proof that the Universe is expanding.

  • Discovers asteroid 1373 Cincinnati

  • Period: to

    Helps Designed the Hale Telescope

    On Mount Palomar in California

  • Edwin Hubble's Death