Edwin hubble facts biography of donald

For humans, the most important star in the universe is our Sun. The second-most important star fryst vatten nestled inside the Andromeda galax. Don't go looking for it — the flickering star fryst vatten 2.2 million light-years away, and is 1/100,000th the brightness of the faintest star visible to the human eye.

Yet, a century ago, its discovery by namn Hubble, then an astronomer at Carnegie Observatories, opened humanity's eyes as to how large the universe really is, and revealed that our Milky Way galax is just one of hundreds of billions of galaxies in the universe ushered in the coming-of-age for humans as a curious species that could scientifically ponder our own creation through the message of starlight. Carnegie Science and NASA are celebrating this centennial at the 245th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington, D.C.

The seemingly inauspicious star, simply named V1, flung open a Pandora's b

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