The Life of Edwin Hubble Power Point book

The Life of Edwin Hubble Power. Point book

Edwin Hubble was born November 20, 1889 in Marshfield, Missouri. He was an athlete in school and studied Mathematics and Astronomy at Chicago University. After graduating from Chicago University, he went on to Oxford University and studied Law and became a high school teacher.

Edwin Hubble After teaching for a few months, he dumped both, teaching and law, while realizing that he could not live without astronomy. After doing one year service for army in the First World War, Hubble secured a job at the Mount Wilson Observatory In California.

Edwin Hubble developed an interest in “nebulae”; cloudy objects in the sky during night. He made an excellent observation that these clouds were not entirely made up of clouds of gas, but also consisted of clouds of stars, usually arranged in spirals.

Edwin Hubble It was revealed in in 1920 that the Sun was part of the Milky Way or the Galaxy; a vast group of stars. This made Hubble wonder if the nebulae were also a part of this group or not. Hubble had captured photographed hundreds of nebulae, and by 1924, declared that several of these consisted of stars and could be called galaxies. He categorized the galaxies into different types according to the structure of their spirals.

Edwin Hubble In 1936, Hubble published The Realm of the Nebulae, a historical and explanatory piece on his research in the field of extragalactic astronomy. Hubble worked at Mount Wilson Observatory until 1942, when he left to work at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland during World War II. For his service during the war, in 1946, Hubble received the Medal of Merit.

Edwin Hubble's work in the field of astronomy was truly revolutionary. By showing that other galaxies existed, scientists had a better idea of the concept of the size of the universe and the possibility of other planets.

Edwin Hubble spent much of his later life trying to prove astronomy as a field of physics. He died on September 28, 1953 of a stroke in San Marino, California. He was 63 years old. As a tribute to Hubble's groundbreaking work in astrophysics, NASA named its Hubble Space Telescope after Edwin Hubble.