Edwin Hubble: A Brief Biography

My definition of honor is, the ability to stand up for what's right when no one else will. Many other people like to use the dictionaries term which is high respect or regard for someone or something. Edwin Hubble isn't what I would call honorable, but he was one of the best astronomists mankind has ever had. Edwin Edwin was born in Missouri in 1889, the son of an insurance agent, and moved to Chicago almost nine years later. He was a very popular student in his school, he was ever smart student and in many sports including basketball, baseball, and track. Because of this, when he graduated from high school his principal looked him in the eyes and said. ¨All the years you have been at my school, I've never seen you study for more than 10 minutes, so here is a scholarship to the University of Oxford.¨ After he graduated obtaining a bachelor's degree in …show more content…
No one knew the Milky Way's size at the time, but because of his research, Hubble was able to estimate that Andromeda Nebula thought as a spiral at the time was nearly 900,000 light years away from us, thus it had to be its own galaxy. Andromeda Nebula was later proven to be nearly 2.48 million light years. The Andromeda Nebula was later renamed the Andromeda Galaxy. In the early 1920s, Edwin began conducting new research, along with fellow friend Milton Humason, on the galaxies' spectral and distances, particularly looking at their connection with the earth. They then published their findings in 1929, theorizing that in galaxies light emissions can show that they are moving away from each other move at a constant rate. In other words, Hubble was stating that a galaxy's redshift is almost twice the size as another's when it's almost twice as far from another galaxy. The men's research was widely