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Hubble And The Universal Telescope

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After teaching in Indiana for a short period of time, he went back to Oxford to study astronomy. Soon after returning to Oxford, he was recruited to Mount Wilson to help with the construction of the Hooker telescope. After the telescope was completed, Edwin proved there are galaxies beyond the Milky Way. Hubble did this by comparing the light given off by the stars he saw. Hubble was able to estimate that the Andromeda galaxy is about 900,000 light years away, proving it was too far to be in the same galaxy as Earth. Then in 1938 he made a book based on his work called The Realm of the Nebulae.

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