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    by many scientist. However, a person named Edwin Powell Hubble discovered something beyond Milky Way and Galaxies, which is called the Nebulae. According to Hubble, he stated that “Until recently those outer regions in the realm of speculation … they appear as small faint clouds mingled among the stars and many of them have long been known by the name “nebulae.” Their identification as great stellar systems, the true inhabitants of the universe.” (Hubble). Hubble’s discovery of the nebulae and stellar

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    What do Aristotle, Nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei, Edwin Powell Hubble, and Albert Einstein, all have in common? Each of these extraordinary individuals were brilliant astronomers that have given significant light on how the universe is thought of today, the Big Bang Theory. The Big Bang theory is an effort to explain what happened at the very beginning of the universe. Simply put, the theory is about the cosmological model of the universe starting with a small high density

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    Bang theory. Hubble accomplished this by cataloguing 24 different galaxies whose velocities and distances were able to be measured in order to attempt to visualize a relationship between the two primarily using spectroscopy. Hubble dealt with measuring the distance, while Bahcall’s paper mentions that while Vesto Melvin Slipher’s observations of velocity were used, he was not mentioned in Hubble’s original paper. The paper then goes into the finer details of each

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    Big Bang Theory

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    leant their hands out to the theory including Edwin Hubble who observed that galaxies are speeding away from us in all directions and by Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson who co discovered cosmic microwave radiation (Origins, N.P.). Lemaître's idea of the single atom is the spec earlier mentioned. When Edwin Hubble comes along and states this bizarre notion it brings many questions to mind but he backs his statements up well by using the Doppler Effect. Hubble didn't create the idea of the Doppler Effect

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    gravity. Willem de Sitter, Aleksandr Friedmann and Georges Lemaitre later applied Theory of Relativity to the Universe and confirmed that the Universe could be expanding. Vesto Slipher observed that galaxies were moving from us than approaching us. Edwin Hubble discovered that universe was smaller in the past and has been expanding. The Big Bang Theory states that the universe began by expanding from a small volume to a large volume with high density and temperature. It carried out matter as the planet

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    Hubble made observations that he interpreted as showing that distant stars and galaxies are receding from Earth in every direction.Moreover, the velocities of recession increase in proportion with distance, a discovery that has been confirmed by numerous

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    many people who worked together to come up with the present theory of creation. Edwin Hubble, Arno Penzias, Robert Wilson and Alan Guth all contributed greatly to the formation of the Big Bang theory. Edwin Hubble used his large telescope to see far away stars and galaxies. He knew that the elements in the stars reflected back specific colors, and you could tell what a star was made of by its color ?DNA?. Hubble noticed that this pattern had been slightly shifted to the red side of the spectrum

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    Majestic Barred Galaxies

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    A galaxy is a huge collection of dust, gases and stars. A galaxy is created right after the birth of a universe and held together, it is constantly moving through space. There are four different kinds of galaxies: spiral, barred spiral, elliptical and irregular. (Spiral Galaxies) A typical spiral galaxies can be define by how its form, structure, and characterize. Spiral galaxies have the shape of spiral, hit where they get their name from. The arms of the spiral galaxies are made of the stars,

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    The Shapley-Curtis debate began when Harlow Shapley accurately described the vastness of the Milky Way, but incorrectly stated that the Milky Way was the only galaxy which existed inside the universe, and that the Sun was the centre of the Milky Way, not the universe. Shapley's contender, Heber Curtis, argued that the Milky Way was not the only galaxy in the universe. He believed that other, far more vast galaxies, existed as well. His counter-evidence was in the spiral nebulae found outside the

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    the Big Bang Theory, support the previous statement – not that a living, conscious God created the universe but that someone or something ignited the formation of a macrocosm. Also, “someone or something” sustains it. In 1929, American scientist Edwin Hubble confirmed that galaxies are moving distant from the Earth; in other words, the universe is expanding. This

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