Hubble's message to us is to find peace in the vastness of the mystery surrounding us, and to be curious. Using the insights of great mathematicians and endlessly observing the sky, he succeeded in confirming two things that altered human life forever: that there are more galaxies than our own, and that the universe is always expanding. He was 63 years old.Print The Boy Whose Head Was Filled with Stars: A Story about Edwin HubbleĪge range 6 to 9A beautiful picture book about the astronomer Edwin Hubble that invites children to ponder How many stars are in the sky? How did the universe begin? Where diid it come from?This is the story of Edwin Hubble, a boy fascinated by the stars who surmounted many hurdles to follow his dreams of becoming an astronomer. He died on Septemof a stroke in San Marino, California. His famous book The Observational Approach to Cosmology and The Realm of the Nebulae were also published around the same time.Įdwin Hubble spent much of his later life trying to prove astronomy as a field of physics. Hubble discovered the asteroid 1373 Cincinnati in 1935. ![]() With these conclusions, he demonstrated that the universe was much, much bigger. To his surprise, they were even more distant than the Andromeda nebula. This landmark discovery was followed by the findings of more Cepheid variables in other nebulae and Hubble successfully measured their distances. The discovery made him world-famous and proved the concept of “single galaxy universe” wrong. Hubble concluded the Andromeda nebula was much distant to the earth as compared to any other known star, making it outside the Milky Way galaxy. While studying the constellation of Andromeda, the largest visible galaxy in the sky, he found out that it contained a variable star. He categorized the galaxies into different types according to the structure of their spirals, something that was later proved to be wrong. Hubble had photographed hundreds of nebulae, and by 1924, declared that several of these consisted of stars and could be called galaxies. After much research, he was able to demonstrate that the Universe was something much bigger than the imagination of any astronomer can comprehend. This made Hubble wonder if the nebulae were also a part of this group or not. It was revealed in 1920 that the Sun was part of the Milky Way or the Galaxy, a vast group of stars. He made an excellent observation that these clouds were not entirely made up of clouds of gas, but also consisted of the clouds of stars, usually arranged in spirals. Hubble developed an interest in “nebulae” cloudy objects in the sky during night. There, he had access to a very expensive and world’s largest Newtonian telescope with a mirror 100 inches (2.5 m) in diameter. After doing one year service for army in the First World War, Hubble secured a job at the Mount Wilson Observatory In California. He studied law at Oxford University and became a high-school teacher.Īfter a few months, he dumped both teaching and law, and realized that he could’t live without astronomy, his first love. After studying mathematics and astronomy at Chicago University, he received a Rhodes Scholarship. ![]() ![]() Born in 1889 at Marshfield, a small city in Webster County, Missouri, Edwin Powell Hubble had been a bright boy since his childhood days.
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